Books

Noura Al Noman’s Ajwan was the first-ever winner of the Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature in the Young Adult category: Mariam F. Al-Doseri Impressing young adults ……Read More

Iraqi novelist Mortada Gzar — contributor to the recent collection Iraq + 100, participant in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and author of the acclaimed Mr. Azger Akbar (2013) —  writes, in ……Read More

The fiction and poetry longlists for the 2017 Best Translated Book Awards (BTBAs) were released yesterday, and Elisabeth Jaquette and Mona Kareem were honored, respectively, ……Read More

A coffee table book is expected to make for an interesting read, especially when cantered on Bollywood. There aren’t many which come out actually in ……Read More

I believe translator Marilyn Booth is still looking for the right publisher to bring out Man Booker International finalist Hoda Barakat’s The Kingdom of This Earth in ……Read More

There has been surprisingly little attention given to the arrival of Mustafa Khalifa’s The Shell in English. This review appears in its entirety in Qantara: Mustafa Khalifa’s The Shell, ……Read More