Books

Haytham El Wardani’s The Book of Sleep was an oft-named author favorite in 2017. This week, Minor Literature[s] has fragments from the book, translated by Robin Moger: You can ……Read More

Karma Publishing House has issued a new edition of one of late Egyptian writer Salah Eissa’s Raya and Sakina’s Men just a month after the author’s death: ……Read More

Syrian author Muhannad Al-Aqous’s The Green Braids is shortlisted for this year’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Children’s Literature category. Hend Saeed looks at his earlier ……Read More

On December 11, 2017, Palestinian writer Huzama Habayeb became the twenty-third author to win the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Arabic Literature, for Velvet. A translation of the novel ……Read More

Two-time International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlistee Inaam Kachachi (The American Granddaughter, tr. Nariman Youssef, and Tashari) put out a new novel this winter: The Outcast. Reviewer Mahmoud Hosny ……Read More

Emirati author and columnist Eman Al Yousuf has published two short-story collections and two novels, the latter of which, Guardian of the Sun, was co-winner of first prize ……Read More