This review first appeared on Bookwitty: Two recent books—Raja Alem’s award-winning The Dove’s Necklace (2016) and Ziauddin Sardar’s acclaimed Mecca: The Sacred City (2014)—offer portraits of a ……Read More
The 2016 Sharjah International Book Fair opened this morning with a ceremony celebrating the fair’s 35th year, when it’s grown to an estimated 1.5M titles ……Read More
For some reason, many of the expats that migrate down to the Caribbean seem to be a crazy, mad, disenfranchised, hell raising, lunatic fringe who ……Read More
Today in New York City, poet Marilyn Hacker — translator of Venus Khoury-Ghata and Habib Tengour, among others — will be giving an informal talk and reading ……Read More
Academic Sayed Elsisi announced on Facebook that his new book “ما بعد قصيدة النثر” (Post Prose Poem) has been banned in Lebanon: Elsisi, an assistant ……Read More
This is the third and final day of events commemorating the 40th anniversary of Taha Hussein’s passing at Cairo’s Taha Hussein Museum: The author, sometimes ……Read More
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