One of ArabLit’s favorite readers and book-club leaders, Elisabeth Jaquette, has just posted the Cairo Book Club’s first-ever podcast, from their discussion of Mourid Barghouti’s “I Was Born There, I Was Born Here,” led by the book’s English-language translator, Humphrey Davies.
Frankly, I am not equipped to explain the thinking behind the KSA’s (many) laws. But I can say that the English-language term “book club” is not sufficient to express what Saudi authorities mean to control and repress with a new set of culture-strangling bylaws.
Novelist Somaya Ramadan is among the authors who contributed to Arab World Books’ latest “literature and essay corner.”
The Jordanian news-and-culture website 7iber.Com is launching its new book club, “Inkitab – انكتاب,” with a reading of The Committee (1981, 2001 English) by celebrated Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim.
The social-media and citizen-journalism collective 7iber’s announcement that the group will be launching an Arabic book club reminded me, belatedly, of an 2010 article I’d read by Dr. Amany Elsayed: “Arab online book clubs: A survey.”
The first meeting of an all-new Dubai-based Arabic book club will be on Wednesday, Jan 12 at 8:00pm. The meeting’s set to be held at Carluccio’s Dubai Marina Mall, Promenade GF. (I hope that makes sense to those of you who know Dubai.)
Live in Seattle? Always wanted to read more Arabic lit (and meet interesting people, for goodness sakes)?
Today, the Read Kutub group in Dubai will meet (at 7:45 p.m.) to discuss Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter (ألفصل ألأخير). Abouzeid, considered a pioneer among Moroccans because she writes in Arabic rather than in French, was the first female… Read More ›
Growing up, I found a home in literature, art and music. Wherever war and oppression took me I continued to search for this home even in unusual places and circumstances.
I’m not sure I’ve ever formally pointed readers to Read Kutub, the Dubai-based book group organized by The Third Line Gallery. Kutub organizes a flesh-and-blood book group in Dubai, but it also makes a number of resources available online. So… Read More ›
Diwan has been an integral part of Cairo’s new (upscale) bookish landscape, along with the Sherouq stores and indies like Kotob Khan. So I took note when the chain said they’d re-launched their website. The new site has the “look… Read More ›
