Books

Last month, poet-translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid appeared in Popula, with a few words on his upcoming translation of  the mu‘allaqāt, or the Hanging Poems: It was last year ……Read More

Award-winning Sudanese author Bushra al-Fadil is a master of creating parallel universes through wordplay and sound: By Lemya Shammat The creative voice of Bushra al-Fadil is ……Read More

Beloved Egyptian author Ahmed Khalid Tawfik (1962-2018) died earlier this year. Four authors look back at his life and work: By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD ……Read More

At the end of last month, Gulf News published a final discussion between Iraqi novelist Shakir Noori and celebrated Kuwaiti novelist Ismail Fahd Ismail (1940-2018), who died ……Read More

Banipal editor and novelist Samuel Shimon writes — in issue 63 — that he’d proposed, at the beginning of the year, a list of “100 best ……Read More

Ursula Lindsey & M Lynx Qualey discussed Khatt: Egypt’s Calligraphic Landscape at the end of Bulaq‘s most recent episode, 22:  The book is a photographic exploration of Egyptian ……Read More