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Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Essays / Intellectuals / Maghreb / Obituaries

December 4, 2015

Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015)

Sad news this: Fatema Mernissi was a major voice for women inthe Maghreb over the years — I found that her books were also very useful to wake up my American students. Her memoir...

Arab Culture / Islamic Fundamentalists / Mashreq / Middle East / Uncategorized

November 19, 2015

Hind Meddeb & Federica Matta: “Face à l’horreur”

Yesterday I received a letter — an outcry, really, and a cogent reflection on the Paris massacres — from Hind Meddeb, the daughter of Abdelwahab Meddeb, written in collaboration with the painter Federica Matta who...

Arab Culture

November 4, 2015

Hassan Blasim: ‘A Refugee in the Paradise that is Europe’

via Arab Literature (in English) on NOVEMBER 4, 2015 : Blasim reading. Image from his website. A short text by Iraqi short-story writer and filmmaker Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright: You escape death. They...

Arab Culture / Egypt / Obituaries

October 19, 2015

Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015)

Towering Egyptian Novelist and Cultural Critic, Gamal al-Ghitani, Dies at Age 70 BY MLYNXQUALEY on OCTOBER 18, 2015 • ( 3 ) Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal al-Ghitani has died in a Cairo military...

Arab Culture

September 24, 2015

Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya’s ‘Following the News on Al Jazeera’

Via Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 • ( 0 ) “Following the News on Al Jazeera” is a pop-rhetorical poem by Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya, an intervention into recent news, translated...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Translation

September 15, 2015

Listening to Refugees: 5 Novels, Stories, and Essays

via the very excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 • ( 2 ) Abo Adnan, a Syrian who lives in a refugee camp in Germany, asks that we not just...

Arab Culture / Intellectuals / Mashreq / Middle East / Poetry

September 9, 2015

German Peace Prize for Syrian poet Adonis?

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, just published an article on its website which I am reproducing below. Ever since the announcement that Adonis was to receive the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the city of Osnabrück,...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Interview / Poetry / Uncategorized

September 1, 2015

The PEN Ten with Dunya Mikhail

A pleasure to see this interview with Dunya Mikhail on the PEN site. Below the opening sparagraphs; tou can read the whole interview here. By: Randa Jarrar PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 25, 2015 Photo of...

Arab Culture / Literature / Translation

August 28, 2015

World Shakespeare and the ‘Arab Spring’

via the excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 28, 2015 • ( 0 ) “Who’s Shakespeare?” a character asks in a new translation of Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassan Khemiri’s Invasion: Arab adaptations and...

Arab Culture / Novel / Translation

August 11, 2015

2015 Arab-American Book Awards Go to Much-lauded Novels

via the great Arab literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 11, 2015 • ( 0 ) Laila Lalami and Rabih Alameddine were the two headliners on the 2015 Arab-American Book Awards winners’ list. Both their...