Books

This review, of Kuwaiti novelist Taleb Alrefai’s engaging Outclassed in Kuwait, translated by the author, appears in The National. It opens: In the recently published Outclassed in Kuwait, there ……Read More

These days, you can poke your head into almost any Cairo bookshop and be greeted by a range of horror, from titles by Basma al-Kholy ……Read More

This essay first appeared in the Full Stop Quarterly, Issue #8. To help them continue to pay our writers, please consider subscribing. The essay opens: Hassan Blasim’s new ……Read More

At this year’s Khartoum Book Fair, which ran at the middle of the month, Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour launched his new book, a critical analysis of ……Read More

On October 19, translators Robin Moger and Yasmine Seale led a workshop titled “Unreckoned Things: Collaboration, Experiment and Voice in Translation” at Birckbeck College London: ……Read More

With ‘Antarah ibn Shaddād’s War Songs, the Library of Arabic Literature has launched its first-ever collection of classical Arabic poetry. The collection brings together poetic works composed by ……Read More