Books

Shawkat Toorawa, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Cornell University and one of the Library of Arabic Literature’s executive editors, has been ……Read More

Egypt’s National Center for Translation has reportedly pulled a translation of Egypte de Tahrir: L’anatomie d’une révolution from shelves and stopped its sale. This came after a TV presenter ……Read More

One of the major streams of disagreement during the 2015 Shubbak Festival, which ran last weekend, was what writing can (and can’t) do: The comix ……Read More

Even Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury — an author and scholar of international standing and the anchor of Shubbak’s literary events — took time out of his ……Read More

Banipal 53, with its focus on Syrian short-story Zakaria Tamer, is perhaps the strongest edition the magazine has yet issued: It includes more than a ……Read More

Iraqi novelist Layla Qasrany traveled to Turkey to commemorate the Armenian genocide and visit sites that had appeared in her most recent novel. A side-trip into northern ……Read More