Comics — and graphic novels — continue to blossom in Arabic-writing hotspots, including Algiers, Beirut, and Cairo: Starting tomorrow, the first edition of Between Cadres (BECA) — Egypt ……Read More
Ezzat al-Kamhawi’s House of the Wolf (trans. Nancy Roberts), winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, is a multi-generational epic in the tradition of Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. But ……Read More
Six titles were on the shortlist for the second annual “Prix de la littérature arabe,” co-sponsored by the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Arab World Institute: ……Read More
Wednesday morning, the MacArthur Foundation announced its list of “Genius Grants.” On the list to receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000 is Libyan poet and ……Read More
Lebanese-American author Rabih Alameddine’s fourth novel, An Unnecessary Woman, is on the ten-book longlist for the US’s National Book Award (NBA): Alameddine’s novel looks at the world through the eyes of ……Read More
It’s now been thirty-two years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. Like other events that bend human capacity to understand ……Read More
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