Books

Chip Rossetti, translator of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Beirut, Beirut (2014, 2015 US), was in attendance at this week’s “The Authoritarian Turn: On The State of the Egyptian Intelligentsia.” The ……Read More

Elliot Bannister attended the “A Bird Is not a Stone” launch events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival and experienced the poems both as Scottish and ……Read More

The fall lecture schedule for Cairo’s Center for Translation studies includes talks by translator and academic Margaret Litvin (Hamlet’s Arab Journey), award-winning playwright Laila Soliman (Egyptian Products, Whims ……Read More

Translator Max Shmookler, who is currently co-editing a collection of Sudanese short stories with ArabLit contributor Raphael Cormack, continues to write, in a posts that first appeared on Baraza, about ……Read More

On the occasion of New Directions’ publication of the writer Sonallah Ibrahim’s amazing, acclaimed Stealth, Bidoun and ND are bringing together writers and scholars to reflect ……Read More

The Gingko Conference series — in memory of Mark Linz — is a ten-year project that aims to bring together MENA-focused scholars and public figures around particular ……Read More