Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s efforts to purge mosque libraries of “any book, irrespective of its author or publishing house, that contradicts the teachings of… Read more »

When, this fall, Arabic translator Jonathan Wright posted an open letter on his blog detailing how very far things had gone south with his translation of Egyptian author Alaa al-Aswany’s… Read more »

When you’re making sweeping generalizations about what to read to get to know another country—its history, its inhabitants, and its literature— the honorable route to take is one of compensatory… Read more »