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ACO: Now More than 10,000 Open-source Arabic Ebooks
The Arabic Collections Online (ACO) project — which received a $1.34 million grant last August — has passed the 10,000 mark in Arabic ebooks available free online: According to ……Read More
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Support for Publisher and Bookseller Khaled Lutfi, Sentenced to 5 Years
On February 4, according to a report in Al Akhbar, Al Modon, and elsewhere, Khalid Lutfi, founder of Cairo’s Tanmia Bookshop and Publishing, was sentenced to five years ……Read More
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Friday Finds: ‘A Taste of Today’s Gulf Literature’
This volume of the International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies: A Taste of Today’s Gulf Literature has been around since 2016, but I only just stumbled across it: The ……Read More
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Spring Arabic Lecture Series at NYU to Host Fadl, Hashem Beck, al-Atrash
Egyptian author Bilal Fadl will kick off a spring lecture series at NYU next month: The idea for the series came from NYU doctoral candidate ……Read More
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‘Loss Sings’ and the Relevance of Poetry from Nearly a Millennium and a Half Ago
James E. Montgomery’s Loss Sings came out from the Cahiers Series, Center for Writers & Translators, American University of Paris/Sylph Editions in 2018: Reviewed by Sarah Irving ……Read More
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Huda Fakhreddine on ‘Arabic Modernism’s Other Tradition’
Prof. Huda J. Fakhreddine, Assistant Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on ……Read More