Yemeni literature and creative arts have received little attention in English, either before or during the country’s current state of multi-front war, disease, and privation. Novelist and ……Read More
For a long time, it seemed like maybe Liane Moriarty and Stephen King had cornered the modern market on the suspense-fiction genre. But no more: ……Read More
In 2014, Egyptian novelist Mansoura Ez Eldin won the best-novel award at the Sharjah International Book Fair for her Emerald Mountain. It has since been translated into ……Read More
Larry Tremblay’s story of “children of war” in an unnamed Arab country, The Orange Grove, (trans. Sheila Fischman) has clear echoes of Algerian Francophone author Mohammed Dib’s ……Read More
China was the guest of honor at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which closed May 2, and the Chinese pavillion reportedly had 300 ……Read More
This essay first appeared, in a slightly different form, in Arabic. Tomorrow, ArabLit will have a Q & A with International Prize for Arabic Fiction judge ……Read More
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