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Crowdsourcing Discussions of Books to Translate: Get Involved in NYC, Cairo, Online 27 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
The London-based publisher And Other Stories (AOS) will be running Arabic-English reading groups this fall: In Cairo, in NYC, and online. Participating readers will peruse three novels — the full nove...
…and Sonallah Ibrahim? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
Over at the Arabist, Ursula Lindsey raises questions, in Et Tu Sonallah?, about the towering Egyptian novelist’s current and past political positions and how they reflect on his role as a sometimes-”o...
AZ Abushady: Revolutionary Egyptian Poet, Feminist, Beekeeper, and More 26 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
Artist and writer Joy Garnett (@joygarnett) is working on a book about her grandfather, Ahmed Zaki Abushady, the Egyptian poet and bee scientist. She answered a few questions about AZ Abushady, his wo...
Iowa’s International Writing Program Sees First Participants from Yemen, Bahrain 25 Aug 2013 | 09:53 am
Last week, 34 established writers from around the world began to arrive in Iowa City to participate in the University of Iowa’s 47th International Writing Program (IWP) residency. This year sees the p...
Tunisian Rappers Arrested During Show, Waiting on Charges 25 Aug 2013 | 08:03 am
Rapper Weld El 15 has popular, driven, to-the-point style — “Police, magistrates, I’m here to tell you one thing, you dogs / I’ll kill a policeman instead of a sheep / Give me a gun I’ll shoot them.” ...
‘Syria Has No Choice But Hope’ 24 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
The brilliant novelist Khaled Khalifa, whose In Praise of Hatred (trans. Leri Price) was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fic...
El Feki’s ‘Sex and the Citadel’ Makes Guardian First Book Award Longlist 23 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
The longlist of the 2013 Guardian First Book Award was announced today, and 11 titles will compete, including Shereen El Feki’s Sex and the Citadel: The first book award is an oddball among Anglo lit...
‘For Religious People, Everything Has Already Been Done’ 23 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
Sarah Irving continues her coverage of the Edinburgh International Book Festival; on Monday, she attended a talk by Rawi Hage and Tash Aw, called “The World in Grotesque Technicolor“: By Sarah Irving...
UK Publishers: It’s Time to Submit to ‘PEN Promotes!’ 23 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
Each year, a PEN committee chooses between 8 to 10 books translated into English by UK publishers to receive grants to help promote, market and champion these titles. It’s time to apply for PEN Promot...
Ghareeb Iskander on Iraqi Poetries and the ‘Third Language’ of Translation 22 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
Ghareeb Iskander is an Iraqi poet living in London. He has published collections of his own work (Sawad Basiq, Mahafat Alwahm, Af’a Gilgamesh), criticism on Arabic poetry, and translations of poets bo...
