Books

The poetry of Kamal Al-Jizouli — who is also a human rights lawyer, arrested in January of this year, and part of a team who ……Read More

London-based novelist and video artist Guy Gunaratne on imprisoned Egyptian poet and lyricist Galal El-Behairy: By Guy Gunaratne  It feels a little strange to write ……Read More

Last week in The Guardian, English poet Anthony Howell wrote a remembrance for Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim, who died this past May: M3361S-3034 A book of Karim’s ……Read More

The collection isn’t available until July 25, but the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival will hold a launch event for Palestine + 100 today at 6:30 p.m.: Stories ……Read More

Award-winning Iraqi poet, journalist, and author Dunya Mikhail — whose The Beekeeper, co-translated from the Arabic by Mikhail and Max Weiss, made the 2019 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith ……Read More

The Johannesburg Review of Books recently published two “translations” by Robin Moger, both responses to the sixth poem in The Interpreter of Desires, a cycle ……Read More