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Gold Dust

Ibrahim al-Koni

Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure … continued

The Butcher of Casablanca

Abdelilah Hamdouchi

A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear sp … continued

The Magnificent Conman of Cairo

Adel Kamel

Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of m … continued

Ibrahim al-Koni

Rana Haddad

Donia Kamal

A quarantine interview with Marcia Lynx Qualey about Arabic fiction

Marcia Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of the “ArabLit” website (arablit.org), which won a 2017 London Book Fair “Literary Translation Initiative” prize. She also publishes the experimental ArabLit…

Hoopoe 2020 catalog – classic authors and debut novelists

Much awaited is the release of Adel Kamel’s rediscovered 1940s classic The Magnificent Conman of Cairo. Praised by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, but never before translated, this literary gem propels…

“Writing is practical, like cooking. You must pay attention to all of its ingredients”

Yasser Abdel Hafez is an Egyptian journalist and novelist, and is an editor at the literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab. His first novel On the Occasion of Life was longlisted for the International Prize…