Books

There are a number of events that focus on Arab and Arabic literatures at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. Contributor Raphael Cormack attended two, ……Read More

I was excited, really excited, on finding out that a couple of graphic novels on Sholay had just hit the stands. Though Yash Raj had ……Read More

The Peninsula Qatar reported on Thursday that the Katara Novel Prize — which seems to be Qatar’s answer to the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) and ……Read More

According to the Arab American Museum’s Matthew Stiffler, the 2014 Arab American Book Awards — given to books published in 2013 — have just been announced: ……Read More

The US-based National Endowment for the Arts has announced the latest round of literary translation fellowships: The NEA named 20 translators of fiction, creative nonfiction, and ……Read More

Bookseller reported yesterday that Canongate had acquired a 466-page memoir written by Mauritanian Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, which Slahi finished in 2006, but which had apparently ……Read More