This morning, the 16-strong longlist for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced: The selected titles were pulled from a list of 180 entries from 15 countries. ……Read More
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. announced the 2014 recipients of the Hemingway Grant last month, and among the grant-ees were translations of ……Read More
Each year, the US State Department, which funds the University of Iowa’s “Between the Lines” program, determines which countries are invited to submit nominees. This year it’s Tunisia: ……Read More
Just days before the announcement of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist, OneWorld and Penguin announce that they’ve bought English-language rights to the 2014 winner: ……Read More
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveler, writer, and lecturer who makes his home in Sana’a, Yemen, and who is in Dubai this month as writer-in-residence at ……Read More
Starting tomorrow in Cairo, you can attend the “Doum Storytelling Nights,” a return to the art of oral storytelling: By Mona Elnamoury This storytelling night ……Read More
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