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New Advisor!

• November 10, 2025

Exciting News from the CAL Encyclopedia Team! We’re delighted to welcome Adnan Charakh as Advisor on literature from  Iraq to...

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The CAL Encyclopedia part of LEILA

• August 20, 2025

We’re delighted to announce that the CAL encyclopedia has been added as a resource on the LEILA website! By joining...

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CAL Encyclopedia in the News!

• August 17, 2025

Read about the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Arab(ic) Literature in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. “A unique digital platform, developed by the EWANA Center...

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CAL Encyclopedia Launch

• July 30, 2025

On Sunday July 27, the EWANA Center launched the CAL Encyclopedia in Atelier Kito in Brussels, Belgium! Around 35 guests...

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Speculative Fiction Workshop

• December 10, 2024

Together with the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Morocco, the EWANA Center organized a...

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Egypt

• December 16, 2025

Najīb Maḥfūẓ (1911 – 2006, Egypt) – Bidāyah wa-Nihāyah (1949, English trans. The Beginning and the End, 1985). This novel...

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Transjordan

• December 16, 2025

Fadia Faqir (1956-, Jordan) – Pillars of Salt (1996). Maha and Umm Sad share a room in a mental hospital...

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Palestine

• December 16, 2025

During the British Mandate, Palestinian literature was deeply shaped by expanding censorship, political repression, and the growing need for writers...

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1993 Oslo Accord

• March 7, 2025

Saḥar Khalīfah (1941-, Palestine) – al-Mīrāth (‘The Inheritance’, 1997). Al-Mīrāth depicts the return of Zaynib,…

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Orphans and Illegitimate Children

• January 24, 2025

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Barakah Sākin (1963-, Sudan) – Mukhayyilah al-Khandrīs (‘The imagination of Khandris’, 2014), tells…

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Father and Child

• January 24, 2025

Aḥmad Amīn (1886 – 1954, Egypt) – Ḥayātī (1950, English trans. My Life, 1978). This…

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