Books

he longlists for the 2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards (SZBA) were announced yesterday in the Emerging Author and Children’s Book categories: The Emerging Author (or “young author”) longlist includes ……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