Sudanese director Amjad Abu Alala won the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Feature at the Venice International Film Festival this past weekend, for his ……Read More
Children’s book author, critic, and translator Ahmed Al-Mahdi writes — among other places — for Egypt’s Fares magazine. Yesterday, we had a conversation with al-Mahdi on the ……Read More
Tomorrow, we’ll officially launch the new ArabLit Quarterly: Summer 2019, The Sea. Today, a piece from the Winter/Spring issue: Ali Abdeddine and Shireen Hamza in conversation ……Read More
On July 12, 2019 at SOAS, scholars hosted a discussion around Arabic Science Fiction, attempting to shift the discussion from chest-beating over the supposed lack ……Read More
Saudi Novelist Omaima Al-Khamis’ Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate was winner of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal and also longlisted for the 2019 ……Read More
Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh — winner of the Muhammad Zafzaf Prize — has seen five of her novels translated to English, but not her classic Bab al-Saha, ……Read More
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