Books

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

For the last two months — August and September — Egyptian authorities prevented the “Al-Fan Midan” (Art is a Public Square) festival from being staged. ……Read More

Moroccan novelist, essayist, and critic Abdelfattah Kilito has a new book out in English translation this fall: Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity, co-translated by Mbarek Sryfi ……Read More

The last poem that appeared on Syrian poet Derar Soltan’s Facebook page came on March 22, 2014. He wrote three more posts after that, the last on April 14. But his ……Read More

A reader in Washington, D.C. said that a number of her students have asked where the funny, uplifting Arabic novels are in translation: There is ……Read More

I was tremendously excited to catch hold of 'Aamir Khan – Actor Activist Achiever'. A coffee table book spanning over 250 odd pages with Aamir ……Read More