Books

Winner of the 2017 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet, tr. Kay Heikkenen, is a multi-generational novel tells a late-in-life love story between two Palestinian refugees ……Read More

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