Books

Washington University in St. Louis professor Anne-Marie McManus has been teaching a semester on Syrian narratives, and shares what she’s learned in the process: ArabLit: First, ……Read More

he relationship between Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti and Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour — as traced through their literary works — is one of the twentieth ……Read More

Beloved, acclaimed Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour has died, leaving behind a great hole: Ashour has struggled with cancer for several years, a struggle that has been beautifully ……Read More

These are eight novels that should all be read for next year’s prize. As I wrote here and in The Guardian, the IMPAC prize has a strange relationship with Arabic ……Read More

rab and  Arabic literature events in some form of translation. Please email with your own or add them below: December 1Beirut Arab Book Fair Continues ……Read More

Arabic literature that’s newly published (in translation, online) this month. Short stories “Younis in the Belly of the Whale” (on Qisasukhra) By Yasser Abdellatif, trans. Robin ……Read More