Books

Creative works published online, in translation, in December 2014: POETRY Washing Sayyab’s statue in Basra. Image from pukmedia.com via Jadaliyya. “An Attempt to Reach Beirut ……Read More

A recommended selection of books forthcoming in early 2015: The Book of the Sultan’s Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars, by Youssef Rakha, trans. ……Read More

The Library of Arabic Literature recently staged the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute’s first public program in Dubai. They discussed, among other things, why “‘adab” is not in ……Read More

In Publishing Perspectives, Olivia Snaije reports on the strong foreign-rights sales of France’s 2014 bestsellers. One May release — Riad Sattouf’s L’Arabe du futur — is scheduled for release from Metropolitan Books ……Read More

According to Kuwaiti Minister of Education and Higher Education Bader Al-Essa, rumors of “sex books” in Kuwaiti libraries are greatly exaggerated: The Kuwait-based Arab Times wrote earlier this ……Read More

A piece in Qantara magazine explores the new trend of crowdfunding support for translations and provides tips from successful crowdfunders: The “A Bird is not a Stone” campaign, ……Read More