Today, Ittihadiya detainees including rights activists Yara Sallam and Sanaa Abdel-Fattah, will receive a verdict. Abdel-Fattah, like a number of other arrested activists, has been on a hunger strike for ……Read More
Newly translated and published online this month: NOVEL EXCERPTS The opening of the novel Otared, by Mohamed Rabie, trans. Robin Moger (Mada Masr) This line of blood ……Read More
Wikipedia recently attempted to distribute books to Arabic-writing encyclopaedists across the region: The grants are an attempt to expand the content of the Arabic-language wikis ……Read More
Periscope is a new imprint from A Midsummer Night’s Press devoted to women’s poetry in translation. Publisher-translator-poet Lawrence Schimel answered questions (why women? why translation? how ……Read More
With the pre-publication launch of an excerpt of Mohamad Rabie’s third novel, Otared — both in the original Arabic and in English translation by Robin Moger — the Egyptian journal Mada Masr is ……Read More
This winter, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is coordinating a new international reading campaign called “One Book, Many Communities.” It’s a shared book club across boundaries and borders, and ……Read More
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