Books

There has been a growing scholarly and popular interest in author and independent scholar Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914). Booth, this year’s Man Booker International-winning translator ……Read More

Today is Publication Day for Nayrouz Qarmout’s The Sea Cloak and Other Stories, tr. Perween Richards: The 14 stories in The Sea Cloak — one of which ……Read More

Last fall, Hoopoe published an English translation of Raja Alem’s Sarab. The novel — written by the celebrated and International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning Saudi novelist — ……Read More

In the genre of Arab prison writing — from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Morocco — it is men’s words that are better-known: When tracing the ……Read More

Zaynab Fawwaz (1850?-1914) was a Lebanese poet, novelist, and historian of famous women: Fawwaz is unusual among nineteenth-century women authors in that she was born ……Read More

Hend Jaʿfar is a writer and academic from Ismailiyya who works in the manuscripts department at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Her story, “The Soul at Rest,” ……Read More