Books

This February, Kuwaiti author Mai al-Nakib will be giving talks and readings across the U.S. from her debut short-story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects: Al-Nakib’s collection ……Read More

The Emirates is expanding its interest in books and writing yet further with the establishment of the Dubai International Writers’ Centre. Mohga Hassib visited: By Mohga Hassib ……Read More

Iraqi novelist, poet, and translator Sinan has won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for bringing his own novel, The Corpse Washer, into English: The ……Read More

Andrew Leber writes that getting to the Doha International Book Fair this year was quite a challenge. As one bookseller asked, “Is anyone going to walk five ……Read More

The European Cultural Foundation has made an English translation (of the Serbian translations) of 12 Impossibles: Stories by Rebellious Arab Writers available online: According to the book’s ……Read More