Books

The Beirut International Arab Book Fair may not be as big as Arabic book fairs in Riyadh, Sharjah, or Cairo, but, by virtue of being ……Read More

A few days ago, the New York Times ran an op-ed from a creative-writing instructor and confessed torturer: “I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib,” Eric Fair writes. ……Read More

Today, Hammour Ziada became the first Sudanese author to win the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his 2014 novel The Longing of the Dervish (Shawq al-Darwish): At its core, The Longing ……Read More

At 6 p.m.* Cairo time, the winner of the 2014 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature will be made public: This year’s judging committee was made up of Tahia ……Read More

This evening, the 18th Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature will be awarded on this, the 103rd anniversary of the author’s birth: Mahfouz remains not just ……Read More

Yesterday, Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, recipient of one of this year’s Genius Grants, was onNPR’s Here & Now, talking about poetry and translation, and most ……Read More