Books

Sudanese writer Omayma Abdullah’s “The Route Through Purgatory” was featured in a recent Friday Finds. The startling desert story was translated by Nassir al-Sayed al-Nour and ……Read More

UNESCO’s World Arabic Day is coming in less than a month, on December 18, and yet great Arabic poets — chief among them Muhyiddin Ibn ……Read More

Winners of the 2019 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation were announced this past Wednesday, November 13: This year’s list of winning and commended poems ……Read More

Taghreed Najjar’s Whose Doll Is This?, winner of 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the “Young Adult” category, is, Hend Saeed writes, the ……Read More

In Bulaq Episode 38, we discussed a picaresque, surprisingly joyful tale set in an evacuated village during the Iran-Iraq war; the TV adaption Elliott Colla’s Baghdad ……Read More

The Royal Court Theatre announced today that Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha is the recipient of the Elyse Dodgson Commission for the Middle East: This commission ……Read More