Books

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

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