Books

Egyptian novelist Mohammed Abdelnabi has won the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe for his acclaimed novel La Chambre de l’araignée, as translated from Arabic to French ……Read More

Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi was arrested in September 1975 and held for six months in Khartoum’s Kober Prison, wrongfully accused of involvement in an anti-government ……Read More

One of Amjad Nasser’s most remarkable productions was the slender chapbook Petra, which was commissioned by a gallery in Jordan and published in six European languages, in ……Read More

In May of this year, Jordanian poet, journalist, and novelist Amjad Nasser published a small cycle of poems online about coming to terms with the end ……Read More

You wouldn’t know it from the landscape of translated Egyptian fiction, but horror is a popular genre on the Cairo book market, both at bookshops ……Read More

The eighty-nine-year-old Syrian poet Adonis, who was this month named GQ Middle East’s icon of the year and continues to be mentioned each year in connection with ……Read More