Books

Last week, Iranian journalist Farahmand Alipour (@FarahmandAlipur) had a fascinating interview with Farsi-Arabic translator Ghassan Hamdan: Kalila w Dimna, a text that traveled from Persian to ……Read More

This conversation — between writer Nada Adel Sobhi and translator-scholar Samah Selim — first appeared on the blog “Nadaness in Motion“: Selim has authored The Novel and the Rural ……Read More

The fifth session of “A Corpus Not a Canon: A Workshop on the Library of Arabic Literature,” a panel series hosted by Dame Marina Warner ……Read More

The fifth session of “A Corpus Not a Canon: A Workshop on the Library of Arabic Literature,” a panel series hosted by Dame Marina Warner ……Read More

Egyptian author’s Muhammad Aladdin‘s first novel, The Gospel According to Adam (2006), was a break with traditional novel format. Aladdin went on to write four more novels; below ……Read More