Books

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

The short story ‘World of Dogs’ was originally written in Arabic, by celebrated Lebanese author Hilal Chouman (Limbo Beirut), and adapted into English by the author, ……Read More