Books

Leri Price has won the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her “sharp and unobtrusive” translation of Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard ……Read More

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s (IPAF) 2020 longlist was announced last month, and Said Khatibi’s third novel Firewood of Sarajevo, was among the 16 ……Read More

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the longlist for its 2020 literature category: Thirteen new books — published in 2018 and 2019 — by mostly ……Read More

In the New York Review of Books, Hisham Aidi writes about Paul Bowles, Tangier, repression, Orientalist distortion, and the persistence of myth: The essay, “So Why Did ……Read More

Independent Egyptian newspaper Mada Masr reports that, on Tuesday, Egypt’s Supreme Military Appeals Court upheld a five-year prison sentence against publisher Khaled Lotfy: According to Mada Masr, ……Read More

Said Khatibi’s Firewood of Sarajevo is on the longlist for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and it is both a novel and a transformation of ……Read More