Earlier this week, Netflix announced its first Egyptian show, an adaptation of the “Paranormal” series by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962-2018): A caricature ……Read More
Mohammad Ibrahim Nawaya’s “To Be Led from Behind,” in Robin Moger’s translation, appears in Issue 17 of The Common, and also on their website: Issue 17 has ……Read More
Al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī al-Tanūkhī (939–994) was a judge, collector of stories, and litterateur who was born in Basra and died in Baghdad. Raised in a ……Read More
Novelist and physics professor Amr Shaarawi recently spoke with translator, educator, and scholar Yasmine Motawy about his creative process: By Yasmine Motawy Amr Shaarawi is a professor ……Read More
The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation is accepting entries for this year’s contest through July 12, 2019: The prize — open to UK residents ……Read More
As we’ve written here already, few Omani writers have had work translated to English: When Jokha al-Harthi won the 2019 Man Booker International last week, ……Read More
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