An “absquiliferous” interview with Humphrey Davies, Arabic translator
In August of this year, the Library of Arabic Literature, a new initiative from NYU Press, published the first two volumes of Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s Leg Over Leg or The… Read more »
The Guardian’s “Best Books on Egypt” list underwhelms…to put it mildly
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 »
Poetry ringtones, wretched money, and blogging Arabic literature: an interview with M. Lynx Qualey
The blog Arabic Literature (in English) hasn’t been around for very long, but it covers with vigor and depth a giant field of literary activity that still remains relatively unknown… Read more »
This may be a leading question, but …
Throwing down the gauntlet with a blog post called “Is it really necessary to translate Arabic literature,” author Ibrahim Farghali has put his finger on what is clearly an extremely… Read more »