EuropeGermany admin / February 9, 2025 Rashā ʿAbbās’ (1984-, Syria) short story collection Kayf tamm Ikhtirāʿ al-Lughah al-Almāniyyah (‘The invention of German grammar’, 2016). With an…
EuropeFrance admin / February 9, 2025 Nabile Farès (1940 – 2016, Algeria / France) – Passager de l’Occident (‘A Passenger from the west’, 1971) and his
EuropeEngland admin / February 9, 2025 Luwīs ʿAwaḍ (1915 – 1990, Egypt) – Mudhakkirāt Ṭālib Baʿthah (‘Memoirs of a Scholarship Student’, 1965). Written in the Egyptian
EuropeBelgium admin / February 9, 2025 ʿAlī Badr (?, Iraq) – ʿĀzif al-Ghuyūm (‘The musician of the clouds’, 2016). This novel tells the story of the
Outside the Arab WorldCentral Asia admin / February 9, 2025 ʿIzzaldīn Shukrī Fashīr (1966-, Egypt) – Abū ʿAmr al-Maṣrī (2010, English trans. The Egyptian Assassin: A Novel, 2019). The lawyer
Outside the Arab WorldAsia admin / February 9, 2025 Asia here is defined as works that relate to the non-Arab, non-Caucasus eastern and southern part of the Asian continent.
1800 - 1920Ottoman Period admin / February 8, 2025 Rashā ʿAdalī (1976-, Egypt) – Shaghaf (2017, English trans. The Girl with Braided Hair, 2020). Yāsmīn is an art expert
AmericasUnited States of America admin / February 8, 2025 Rabih Alameddine (1959-, Lebanon/ USA) – Koolaids: The Art of War (1998). This English-language novel is set in San Francisco
AmericasMexico admin / February 8, 2025 Salwā Bakr’s (1949-, Egypt) – Kūkū Sūdān Kabāshī (‘Kuku Sudan Kabashi’, 2004). When a young Mexican travelling to Egypt in
