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Mohammed Hasan Alwan Wins Prix de la Littérature Arabe for The Beaver
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
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Eyes Full of Empty A New Turn in Algerian-French Noir
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
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Collection by Syrian Poet Ghayath al-Madhoun Makes Dutch Best-seller List
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
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Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya’s Following the News on Al Jazeera
“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
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Cairo Street to be Named for Novelist Gamal al-Ghitani
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
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Book review – The Patels of Filmindia by Sidharth Bhatia
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