Books

This month’s issue of Words Without Borders, guest-edited by Ghayde Ghraowi and Ahd Niazy write, brings together five Omani writers: Only one of the authors is well-known ……Read More

Libyan novelist Ahmed Fagih (1942-2019), best-known for his twelve-volume historical epic Maps of the Soul, died Tuesday at a hospital in Cairo: Fagih was, along with Ibrahim ……Read More

The International Publishers Association announced today that the 2019 Prix Voltaire, which “supports defenders of freedom to publish,” will go to imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled ……Read More

This introduction to Arabic literature in Greek translation, by scholar, translator and novelist Persa Koumoutsi, is part of a longer study in process; it’s followed ……Read More

Nadia Wassef, co-founder of Egypt’s Diwan Bookstore chain, which currently has six stores around the Cairo area, gave a talk last week at the Abu Dhabi ……Read More

In a recent discussion between activist-writer Alaa Seif and the staff of Mada Masr, titled “Released but imprisoned daily: Alaa Seif on the need for new ……Read More