Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi has had more than 20 books translated from Arabic into English, making her English’s most-translated Arab writer after Naguib Mahfouz: ……Read More
I didn’t have dinner with Elias Khoury in the manner that Lucy Kellaway lunched with Jonathan Franzen. No formal interview happened: I just sat next to ……Read More
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