Books

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid’s Clouds over Alexandria,in Kay Heikkinen’s translation came out from Hoopoe earlier this month: Egyptian novelist Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (b. 1946) is one of ……Read More

No book translated from the Arabic made either the poetry or fiction longlists of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award (BTBA), announced yesterday. However, Moroccan novelist and ……Read More

Palestinian novelist Ahlam Bsharat’s award-winning YA novel Code Name: Butterfly was translated by Nancy Roberts and published by Neem Tree in 2016. Bsharat’s Trees for Absentees is forthcoming from Neem ……Read More

This evening, Man Booker International Prize organizers announced the six-book shortlist for the 2019 prize. Author Jokha al-Harthi and translator Marilyn Booth made the list with Celestial ……Read More

In May of 2018, young adult fiction author Kosoko Jackson wrote a tweet that would come to haunt him. "Stories about the civil rights movement ……Read More

It’s publication day for the paperback of Yusuf al-Shirbini’s seventeenth-century Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, which has been translated by Humphrey Davies and introduced ……Read More