Books

Last Monday, the Emirates Literature Foundation launched the Dubai International Writers’ Centre (DIWC) to “support aspiring writers and host inspiring literary events”: Photo credit: DIWC.   The ……Read More

Today marks the launch of Sherif Adel’s “Foot 3aleyna Bokra” (“Pass By Tomorrow”), an all-new satirical SF comic that will be published on the first ……Read More

Tunisian poet and essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb died in Paris on November 5: According to Le Monde, Meddeb died on lung cancer. Born in Tunis in 1946, he was a ……Read More

Yesterday in Jerusalem, Palestinian author Suad Amiry launched her latest book, Golda Slept Here, just released by Bloomsbury:  Although the book was released earlier by the ……Read More

The 33rd annual Sharjah International Book Fair opened yesterday with the announcement of the winners of the highly anticipated Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literatre ……Read More

This morning, the Etisalat prize for Arabic Children’s Literature announced that Sonia Nimr’s Strange Travels in Amazing Lands was chosen as the second annual winner in its Young Adult category:  ……Read More