Books

Earlier this year, Banipal Books published an English translation of acclaimed Sudanese author Tayeb Salih’s منسي إنسان نادر على طريقته (Mansi: A Rare Man in His ……Read More

Organizers announced yesterday that Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and Xavier Luffin had won the 2020 Prix de la Littérature Arabe for Luffin’s translation of الجنقو (Les ……Read More

In September, Sudanese short-story writer Mohammed Hassan Al-Nahat won the Mohammed Saeed Nawed Short Story Award — a prize given to writers from countries in ……Read More

Today, Netflix is releasing the series Paranormal, based on the ما وراء الطبيعة books by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. We look back at ……Read More

Lebanese author Charif Majdalani has won a 2020 Prix Femina “special jury prize” for his Beyrouth 2020: Journal d’un effondrement: Other winners of this year’s ……Read More

The 2020 Sargon Boulus Award — this year in its third edition — went yesterday to Egyptian poet Emad Abu Saleh: The prize, which went ……Read More