Books

As Women in Translation Month rolls on, Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg looks at the women who seem to have disappeared in scholarship about the Arabic popular ……Read More

When the great Egyptian writer-activist-translator Radwa Ashour was a young PhD student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst — living far from friends, family, ……Read More

For the epicure, medievalist, Egyptianophile, or collector of interesting moments from the past, Nawal Nasrallah’s new translation of the fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook Treasure Trove of Benefits ……Read More

Translator Sihem Hammouda shares a favorite poem by Tunisian poet Sami Messelmani By Sihem Hammouda Sami Messelmani, who writes mostly prose poetry, is one of ……Read More

The latest issue of Banipal magazine — 62 — focuses on the relationship between literature and Arab cinema, ahead of the September SAFAR Film Festival ……Read More

At the end of next month, Daedalus Books will bring out The Desert and the Drum, by Mrbarek Ould Beyrouk, translated from the French by ……Read More