Art & Culture
OMD Play “Dazzle Ships” at Museum of Liverpool
Music legends Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are to play an exclusive concert at the Museum of Liverpool. OMD have just celebrated 35 years in ……Read More
Lifestyle
Books
Translation and Expectation: Which ‘For Bread Alone’ Are You Reading?
Yesterday, ArabLit posted about a new Mohamed Choukri International Award while making only slight mention of the circumstances under which Choukri’s internationally acclaimed al-Khubz al-Hafi was translated into English. Indeed, ……Read More
Books
Sonallah Ibrahim Part of Committee Setting Up ‘Mohamed Choukri International Award’
World literary awards are plentiful, although credible, transparent, and interesting ones less so. The Mohamed Choukri Foundation, named for the celebrated Moroccan author, recently announced the ……Read More
Books
A New Life for Arabic Noir?
Oum Cartoon blogger Jonathan Guyer has a piece up at the Paris Review this week about “The Case of the Arabic Noirs.” In it, he argues that ……Read More
Science
The Kardashians and Climate Change: Interview with Judith Curry
Climate change continues to drive energy policy, despite the fact that there is no way to reconcile eradicating energy poverty in much of the world ……Read More
Technology
Microsoft Offers Students $100 Off Surface 2
Is it a deal? – the 32GB Surface 2 costs $465 a similar iPad Air costs $668 By Stephen Pate – The back to school market is heating up. ……Read More