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.
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
AmericasColombia admin / February 8, 2025 Ilyās Khūrī (1948-, Lebanon) – Majmaʿ al-Asrār (‘Complex of secrets’, 1994). Following the massacre at Mount Lebanon, the Lebanese family
AmericasChile admin / February 8, 2025 Lina Meruane (1970-, Palestine / Chile) – Volverse Palestina (2014, English trans. Becoming Palestina, 2013). This novel narrates the story
AmericasCanada admin / February 8, 2025 Rīnīh al-Ḥāyik (1959-, Lebanon) – Rasāʾil min Kanadā (‘Letters from Canada’, 2012). When her surgeon husband is shot in his
AmericasBolivia admin / February 8, 2025 Muʿīn Basīsū’s (1927 – 1984, Palestine) play Maʾsāh Jifārā (‘Guevara’s tragedy’, 1969) centers the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and
