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The National has a profile marking the author's tour marking the English publication of Sunset Oasis, his Arabic Booker-winning novel.Meanwhile, the Complete Review salutes another leading Arabic writer, Zakaria Tamer, with two reviews.
It may be a London freesheet but Metro has a high-powered book club going on. Mourid Barghouti's memoir I Saw Ramallah (translated by Ahdaf Soueif) follows The Line of Beauty (August) and The White People (July) in what could potentially be the largest virtual book club out there...
PEN Atlas is featured on Booktrust's Translated Fiction site, a lively and exciting resource whether you're a reader or translator, with reviews, articles (including an inside look at the BCLT Translation Summer School), a blog, and news of UK prizes and initiatives for fiction in translation.
The View from Fez has the scoop as a Moroccan writer, Bensalem Himmich, professor of philosophy at the Mohammed V University in Rabat...
Thanks to Words Without Borders for flagging up this new book from Dalkey Archive Press...
Courtesy of the Center for the Art of Translation: five poems recorded at the Center's Lit & Lunch series.
Iraqi poet Soheil Najm and Saudi Arabian short-story writer Hanaa Hijazi will be taking part in a reading at 5 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Shambaugh House, the IWP headquarters at 30 N. Clinton St. on the University of Iowa campus...
The Literary Saloon does a great job taking to task Mahfouz translator Robert Stock over his piece on Egyptian Culture Minister and would-be head of UNESCO Farouk Hosni...
Listen here [streaming MP3] as Soumaya Souse discusses poetry and Palestine with Leonard Schwartz.
If I Were Another Mahmoud Darwish, trans. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah...
Thanks to the Complete Review for this dazzler: Youssef Rakha channels the spirit of Wittgenstein for Tractato Franco-Arabicus, a playful and informative Al-Ahram review of Sonallah Ibrahim's recent novels about Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, Amrikanli (Dar Al-Mustaqbal, 2003) and its sequel...
Susannah Tarbush reviews Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser's Shepherd of Solitude, the first collection of his work to appear in English. It's translated by poet Khaled Mattawa and published by Banipal Books...
Sadly, not live -- although this "How We Met" article from the Independent on Sunday suggests what a great event that would be.
A feisty and focused review by Shahzad Khan in The Daily Star, Bangladesh's only online newspaper (strapline: "Committed to the People's Right to Know")...
Who can resist an article entitled Poets, Eunuchs and Pricks...
