The Egyptian Assassin
A lifetime ago, Fakhreddin had been an idealistic young lawyer, seeking to fight corruption from his modest quarter of Cairo. Then, a botched attempt on his life forced him to flee the country, propel … continued
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A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me
In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but … continued
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The Hashish Waiter
Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem’s den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge a … continued
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The New York Review of Books on Khaled Khalifa’s novels
Last December, the New York Review of Books reviewed three of Khaled Khalifa’s novels, including No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Hoopoe, 2016).
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Muhammad Abdelnabi wins 2019 Grand Prix de Littérature Arabe
Muhammad Abdelnabi’s novel In the Spider’s Room, a sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt, continues to weave an ever larger web of intrigue, reaching a growing international r…
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Reading with… Ezzedine C. Fishere
Shelf Awareness, a widely-circulated ,US-based online newsletter about books, recently interviewed the Egyptian novelist Ezzedine C. Fishere, author of Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge, translated by John P…
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