Books

Valentine’s Day is a tricky one for ArabLit: For the last several years, we have vacillated between the sweetly romantic and the resolutely anti-V. 2013: ……Read More

The author of the acclaimed Algerian graphic novel Fatma n’Parapli, Safia Ouarezki, talks about the people behind the characters in her striking debut: By Nadia Ghanem ……Read More

Baghdad Central — based on a novel by translator Elliott Colla — has started streaming in the UK, and will be coming soon to other ……Read More

Acclaimed Egyptian playwright Lenin El-Ramly, known for his biting political satires, died yesterday. He was 75: According to Ahram Online, El-Ramly’s wife — the writer Fatma ……Read More

Clayton Clark’s translation of Zakariya Tamer’s “The Policeman and the Horse” — which originally appeared in Banipal — has been republished by Short Story Project: Cheval utilisé pour le ……Read More

Iraqi author Azher Jirjees was born in Baghdad and began working as a journalist in 2003. In 2005, his life took a sharp turn when ……Read More