Tuesday
Apr152008
London Book Fair and Arab literature
Issandr El Amrani
The London Book Fair, which this year shines a spotlight on Arab literature, ends tomorrow. Here are selected links to related stories:
✯ PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED - On religion and censorship for Egypt's independent publishing houses.
✯ Pigs raid Sharqawi’s publishing house; confiscate books خنازير الداخلية تداهم دار Ù…Ù„Ø§Ù…Ø Ù„Ù„Ù†Ø´Ø± وتصادر كتب at 3arabawy - Hossam reports that blogger M. Sharqawi's publishing house, which puts out among other the graphic novel Metro, was raided.
✯ Authors and critics on arabic literature | Review | guardian.co.uk Books - Ahmed Alaidy, Roger Allen, Amani Amin, Alaa al-Aswaany, Mourid Barghouti, Sulayman al-Bassam, Feisal al-Darraj, Sabry Hafez, Hala Halim, Denys Johnson-Davies, Hisham Matar, Amjad Nasser, Hanan al-Shaykah, Adania Shibli, Bahaa Taher, Hind Wassef, and Nabil Yassin on the state of Arab literature.
✯ British Council - New Arabic Books - Program to translate Arabic books
✯ Books | Cairo's greatest literary secret - Profile of Bahaa Taher
✯ Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution? - Features, Books - The Independent - Essay piece from the Hay Alhambra lit festival
✯ Arab book world challenges | theBookseller.com - Amr Moussa promises "decade of education" to encourage literature.
✯ Arcadia and Haus launch Arab imprint | theBookseller.com - London publishers launch project to publish Arabic lit in translation.
✯ PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED - On religion and censorship for Egypt's independent publishing houses.
✯ Pigs raid Sharqawi’s publishing house; confiscate books خنازير الداخلية تداهم دار Ù…Ù„Ø§Ù…Ø Ù„Ù„Ù†Ø´Ø± وتصادر كتب at 3arabawy - Hossam reports that blogger M. Sharqawi's publishing house, which puts out among other the graphic novel Metro, was raided.
✯ Authors and critics on arabic literature | Review | guardian.co.uk Books - Ahmed Alaidy, Roger Allen, Amani Amin, Alaa al-Aswaany, Mourid Barghouti, Sulayman al-Bassam, Feisal al-Darraj, Sabry Hafez, Hala Halim, Denys Johnson-Davies, Hisham Matar, Amjad Nasser, Hanan al-Shaykah, Adania Shibli, Bahaa Taher, Hind Wassef, and Nabil Yassin on the state of Arab literature.
✯ British Council - New Arabic Books - Program to translate Arabic books
✯ Books | Cairo's greatest literary secret - Profile of Bahaa Taher
✯ Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution? - Features, Books - The Independent - Essay piece from the Hay Alhambra lit festival
✯ Arab book world challenges | theBookseller.com - Amr Moussa promises "decade of education" to encourage literature.
✯ Arcadia and Haus launch Arab imprint | theBookseller.com - London publishers launch project to publish Arabic lit in translation.
Reader Comments (1)
thanks for posting this! wish i could attend...