Books

n less than two weeks, on Jan. 12, 2015, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) organizers will announce “the 16 novels that have made it onto ……Read More

Seven Arab authors choose eighteen favorites of 2014. Hisham Bustani, Jordanian short-story writer Hisham Bustani, along with translator Thoraya El-Rayyes, won this year’s Arkansas Translation Prize for his The Perception ……Read More

The start of a list of January 2015 events dealing with Arabic literature in some sort of translation. Please add more below. January 5 ‘One ……Read More

Novelist and poet Omar Hazek was jailed on December 2, 2013, charged with violating Egypt’s anti-protest law, a “crime” for which he is serving two ……Read More

Hanan al-Shaykh’s latest novel — The Virgins of Londonistan — was released in late November at this year’s Beirut Book Fair. Reviewer Mishka Mojabber Mourani found it to ……Read More

On December 25, the New York Times ran two long pieces — “Human Costs of Forever Wars, Enough to Fill a Bookshelf” and “A Reading List of ……Read More