Books

On December 11, 1911, novelist Naguib Mahfouz (d. 2006) entered our world: It was nineteen or twenty years later that Mahfouz began to catch the notice of other writers. And ……Read More

What’s going on in the fictional Moroccan classroom? By Erin Twohig Something troubling is happening to classroom scenes in Moroccan literature in French. The fictional classroom ……Read More

Two brilliant Lebanese novels — in translations that do the hard work of recrafting the voice(s) of the originals — yesterday made the 2017 PEN Translation longlist: They are ……Read More

As a recent essay in Arab48 notes, 2016 has been a year when two of the biggest Arabic literary awards — the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) and al-Multaqa Prize for ……Read More

Judges reportedly came quickly to the decision that Palestinian-Icelandic writer Mazen Maarouf would take the inaugural Al-Multaqa Prize, the first major pan-Arab prize celebrating the short-story collection: ……Read More

This first appeared at Global Urban History. It is reprinted here with permission. By Raphael Cormack Mafroosh used book market, Khartoum. Photo by Raphael Cormack. ……Read More