Books

Over at Bookanista, Jonathan Wright has translated a new short story by Hassan Blasim, titled ““Don’t kill me, I beg you. This is my tree.” And over ……Read More

Haytham El-Wardany is the unique and compelling author of How to Disappear, among other works. Here, novelist Mahmoud Hosny explores El-Wardany’s newest, genre-fluid book: By Mahmoud Hosny In ……Read More

The journal Newfound recently published a Hisham Bustani short story that centers on Palestine, in English translation by Maia Tabet. “Crossing” was originally published in Arabic in Bustani’s ……Read More

Today marks two years since Dareen Tatour was arrested, the case against her built against a poem she’d posted on social medial. Jewish Voice for ……Read More

Award-winning Egyptian author-illustrator Walid Taher (The Black Dot, A Bit of Air) currently works out of Marseilles, where he has has been doing his most avant ……Read More

Last week, organizers announced that the 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship — supported by Banipal magazine and the University of Durham — has gone to Libyan ……Read More