The Men Who Swallowed the Sun
This gritty tale of two men’s ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling Two Bedouin men from Egypt’s Western Desert seek to … continued
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I Do Not Sleep
A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never befo … continued
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Here Is A Body
In this follow-up to her PEN Award-winning novel, The Queue, an electrifying new voice in Arab women’s fiction passionately brings to life the machinations of state oppression Mysterious men are round … continued
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Translator Sarah Enany wins 2021 Banipal Prize for ‘The Girl with Braided Hair’
The winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is Rasha Adly’s novel, Shaghaf, “superbly translated” into English by Sarah Enany as The Girl with Braided Hair, published by Hoopoe (2021), the AUC P…
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Virtual Book Talk about ‘I Do Not Sleep’ / January 11
Join us for a rare Virtual Book Talk with Jonathan Smolin, translator of I Do Not Sleep by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, (Hoopoe Fiction, 2021); Marcia Lynx Qualey, Arabic Literature: In Translation ed…
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“My mission was to make all that happen in English.”
Peter Daniel, a long-term resident of Egypt, has worked as a teacher of Arabic as a foreign language and an Arabic-to-English translator for many years. In this interview, he looks at the challenges h…
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