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
In an interview with Al Quds about the Katara Prize — widely seen as the Qatari response to the Emirates-based International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), or “Arabic Booker” ……Read More
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