Books

In the last thirty years, book fairs have sprawled across the region, continuing as both cultural and sales events. The Casablanca and Baghdad International Book Fairs ……Read More

Egyptian novelist-editor Mohammad Rabie was at the Maghreb-Orient des Livres in Paris: By Olivia Snaije Editor Farouk Mardam-Bey with author Mohammad Rabie. Egyptian author Mohammad Rabie, ……Read More

The University of Iowa Library has published an open-source excerpt of Epic of the Commander Dhat al-Himma as introduced, edited, and translated by Melanie Magidow: The ……Read More

Every year and romance is a struggle here at ArabLit: Some years, we’ve featured anti-love poetry and stories. Last year, it was a new translation ……Read More

Bulaq 27 — co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey — opens with the question of “Where do I start with Arabic literature?”: We also talk ……Read More

The poet-translator Mona Kareem has an essay up in The Babel Review of Translations, issue D9: The essay, “He Goes to the Place: Sargon Boulus Translates Himself ……Read More