In an essay that first appeared on Raseef22, Morocco-based writer and educator Nahrain Al-Mousawi explores the development — and future – of Arabic prison literature: By Nahrain Al-Mousawi Arabic literature ……Read More
How does a translator re-create the effect of “distancing” a writer without pushing the reader to give up on the text? Ghada Mourad explores Marilyn ……Read More
Aaron Bady recently posted the transcript — lightly edited — of a Skype conversation he had with Egyptian author Miral al-Tahawy, author of the Naguib Mahfouz ……Read More
Now this could well be a first. Even though quite a few books are written on superstars, there are a few filmmakers too who have ……Read More
According to Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak, today a wake is being held for short story-writer and novelist Mahmoud Albayaty. Albayaty, who died on the last day of October in ……Read More
On Nov. 10, Mona Kareem will give a talk at Binghamton University on how Gulf women writers adopt — or challenge — nationalist narratives: How, ……Read More
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