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Must-read Classics By Women: 6 by Radwa Ashour
Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) is one of only 12 women writers to have made the Arab Writers Union’s list of the Top 105 Arabic ……Read More
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A Conversation with Jehan Bseiso and Filmpoem ‘No Search, No Rescue’
Beirut-based poet and aid worker Jehan Bseiso recently read some of her work at the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo, and Mada Masr followed the public talk with ……Read More
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Must-read Classics by Women: Latifa al-Zayyat’s ‘The Open Door’
This year, Hoopoe Fiction re-released Latifa al-Zayyat’s classic feminist novel The Open Door, in Marilyn Booth’s compelling translation. For Women in Translation Month, ArabLit revisits the 1960 ……Read More
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2017 Arab American Book Awards Announced: 3 Big Names, 1 Debut Novel
The winners of the 2017 Arab American Book Awards have been announced, with well-known authors Rabih Alameddine (fiction), Hayan Charara (poetry), and Steven Salaita (nonfiction) ……Read More
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Paula Haydar on the Tightrope of Translating Award-winning Novelist Jabbour Douaihy
Paula Haydar‘s translation of Jabbour Douaihy’s June Rain was the highly commended runner-up of the 2014 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Next month, her translation of Douaihy’s startling ……Read More
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When Arabophones Weren’t Arabs: Ibn Qutaybah and Identity Formation During the Early Period of Islam
Peter Webb, a lecturer in Arabic literature and culture at the University of Leiden, is author of Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise ……Read More