Books

The 2015 Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) ends tomorrow. According to Yasmin El-Beih, it’s been a packed year: By Yasmin El-Beih Crowds waiting to get ……Read More

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist will be announced at 10:50 a.m. GMT on Friday, February 13 (apparently, no triskaidekaphobes on staff). In anticipation, we look ……Read More

The Dubai International Writers’ Centre recently held a two-part session about Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels, led by their Writer-in-Residence Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Participants were treated to ……Read More

The battle over memories and representations of Iraq in US discourse rages, not just writ large, as in the discussions over American Sniper, but also in ……Read More

Egyptian poet Maged Zaher has translated another work by the slain poet Shaimaa El-Sabbagh. This one was recorded on video and has been watched more than a hundred ……Read More

MARCH continues to troll Lebanon’s censorship bureau with frustrating and funny results: Authors have long turned censorship into absurd or absurdist art: Nihad Sirees’sSilence and the ……Read More