Books

Young Saudi novelist and short-story writer Mohammed Hasan Alwan has won the Arab World Institute’s Prix de la Littérature Arabe for his novel The Beaver ……Read More

Detective novels were the first modern literary form to cross en masse from wide popular readership in Europe to a pop readership in Arabic: Although noir ……Read More

Ghayath al-Madhoun’s collection of poetry Weg van Damascus, trans. Djûke Poppinga, unexpectedly entered the “Poezie Top 10” in Belgium last month: The Syrian poet, who now lives ……Read More

“Following the News on Al Jazeera” is a pop-rhetorical poem by Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya, an intervention into recent news, translated and introduced here by William Tamplin: ……Read More

According to Ahram Online, the Cairo governorate will name a street in the al-Gamaliyya neighbourhood after novelist Gamal al-Ghitani: The novelist, who’s been in a ……Read More

Baburao Patel and his magazine Filmindia (which was later rechristened Mother India) – It can be said that hardly anyone from the current generation would ……Read More