Books

“The Complex” is a chapter from Mohammed Rabie’s Year of the Dragon, a novel that explores the infuriating, bizarre, and sometimes hilarious underbelly of Egyptian bureaucracy. Rabie ……Read More

You might have read Hadil Ghoneim’s recent essay on a group of US high school students reading Mahfouz. The piece ran ahead of an Ann Arbor teachers ……Read More

Thanks to everyone who sent in events. Please continue sending or post them below. September 1 TRANSFERENCE opens submissions to poetry translated into English from Arabic (as well ……Read More

When Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi declared that the saying should no longer be “Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads,” but instead some combination of Qatari and Emirati ……Read More

It was last November that Adam Talib gave his talk about “Translating for Bigots,” and this May that Africa is a Country wrote about “The ……Read More

As translator Khaled Mattawa wrote, and Etwebi himself posted on Twitter (@abmetwebi), the Libyan poet’s home was attacked and occupied by militia on August 25: Etwebi, Mattawa writes, was not ……Read More