Books

September 27, Chirine El-Ansary performed her version of the Thousand and One Nights at the Rich Mix Theatre. The performance, Al-Mustafa Najjar writes, was astounding: By Al-Mustafa ……Read More

The “Five Continents” prize for Francophone writing goes to Algerian debut novelist Kamel Daoud for his 2013 novel Meursault, contre-enquête (Mersault, the counter-enquiry) organizers said Monday: The ……Read More

Fourteen books that give you something to curl up with as the nights grow shorter. The best and most interesting of what’s coming out this fall: ……Read More

Are gentleman-thieves and murder mysteries making a comeback in Arabic popular fiction? From Al Jazeera: When Egyptian novelist and photographer Ahmed Mourad was asked earlier this year, ……Read More

The program for London’s fifth annual “Nour Festival” is now online. The events, which focus on the Middle East,  take place across Kensington and Chelsea: According to ……Read More

New Arabic (and Arab) writing in translation published (online, free) this month: NOVEL EXCERPTS Excerpt from Barbarians’ Paradise, by Khalil Sweileh, trans. Michele Henjum (Jadaliyya) Someone was finishing his ……Read More