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Short Story Original: Hilal Chouman’s ‘World of Dogs’
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
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Are the ‘Lost’ Mahfouz Stories Worth Reading?
In England, it’s publication day for Naguib Mahfouz’s The Quarter, a collection of eighteen interlinked texts that didn’t appear during his lifetime (and we are not entirely ……Read More
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Bulaq 34 Invisibility
Episode 34 of the Bulaq podcast featured guest Ruqaya Izzidien, author of the Betty Trask-shortlisted The Watermelon Boys and the force behind Muslim Impossible: Our guest this ……Read More
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A Talk about Sudanese Short Stories and ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
The news came late to Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun that her short-story collection, Thirteen Months of Sunrise, had been published in English translation. The book ……Read More
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The Tyranny of ‘True Stories’: Iman Yehia’s ‘The Mexican Wife’
Iman Yehia’s The Mexican Wife is a whodunit that looks for the “truth” of Yusuf Idris’s life story while simultaneously inventing its own: By Gretchen McCullough James Frey’s ……Read More
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1926-33 Archives of Humor Mag ‘Al-Fukaha’
The University of Bonn has posted eight years of archives of the humor magazine al-Fukaha, published in Egypt by Dar al-Hilal: "Al-Fukaha" which means "humour" or "joke" ……Read More