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Zajal: When Competitive Poetry Was a Better Sport Than Soccer
Dozens of Arab poets are getting ready to travel to Dubai for the next round of Prince of Poets interviews. Although Prince of Poets may have ……Read More
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A Letter in My Purse’: From Slain Poet Shaimaa El-Sabbagh
Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, the activist who was shot dead at a rally in Tahrir Square yesterday, was also a poet: A letter in my purse By Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, ……Read More
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Three Great Arab Novels About Rats and Their Extermination
On some of the greatest rats in Arabic literature: Rats are everywhere: at the Jordan-Iraq border in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun; inside the ceiling (and Sana’s ……Read More
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Amr Khaled’s ‘Rafi Barakat’: a Superman that ‘Looks Like Us’
Amr Khaled — perhaps the best-known Muslim television preacher in the world — has now stepped into the world of literature with a debut YA ……Read More
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The Journey of Hyenas: A Novel That Contests the ‘Natural Order’
The Journey of Hyenas (2013) by Egyptian writer Soheir al-Musadafah, sets the a story of a woman’s seventh-century slavery against the present day: By Aisha Khalil ……Read More
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Celebrating Egyptian Novelist Bahaa Taher’s 80th Birthday
Today in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture will celebrate the 80th birthday of Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher — the inaugural winner of the International Prize ……Read More