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Saqi Books events at Nour Festival focus on Arab history, sexuality, art and...
Saqi Books, a "proud partner" of the Nour Festival of Arts: Contemporary art, film, literature, music and performance from the Middle East and North Africa is organising three literary events for the...
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5th IPAF Nadwa for emerging Arab writers opens in Abu Dhabi resort
IPAF Nadwa mentor: Mohammed Achaari Eight emerging writers - four men and four women - from eight Arab countries yesterday began the writers' workshop known as the International Prize for Arabic...
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Banipal Book Club brings Arab short story telling to London's Nour Festival
Following the success of the first-ever Banipal Book Club Short Story Circles held in November 2012 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Book Club organised a second session of Story...
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'Songs of Exile' Vox Holloway concert for Syrian refugees includes premiere...
All proceeds to benefit Hand in Hand for SyriaSunday 1 December at 7.30 pm at St Luke's Church Hillmarton Road London N7 9RE Tube: Caledonian Road Buses: 17, 91, 259, 29, 253 VOX HOLLOWAY in...
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Dishes from Qatar celebrated at Nour Festival culinary evenings
Anissa Helou and Aisha Al-Tamimi in the Books for Cooks kitchen report and pictures by Susannah TarbushCompared to the cuisines of many other countries in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region,...
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'Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes' launched in London
report by Susannah Tarbush, London The book Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes, published by Saqi Books in London, brings together the work of seven award-winning artist-photographers...
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Bloomsbury publishes new translation of Ahlem Mosteghanemi's Dhakirat al-Jasad
Ahlem Mosteghanemi signs The Bridges of Constantine at Bloomsbury's London HQ Dhakirat al-Jasad, the debut novel of Algerian writer Ahlem Mosteghanemi, has won literary acclaim and become a bestseller...
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an interview from 2001 with Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Eyad El-Sarraj
I was very sorry to hear tonight of the death of the remarkable Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Eyad El-Sarraj. This is an interview I conducted with him in 2001, in which he spoke of the dire state of...
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longlist of 16 novels for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF)...
IPAF's 16-novel longlist is packed with heavweights - but includes only two womenby Susannah Tarbush covers of the IPAF 2014 longlist The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) - commonly known...
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Jonathan Wright and William M Hutchins jointly win Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize...
For the first time in the history of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, two translators share the £3,000 prize: British translator Jonathan Wright and American translator...
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'Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine' is...
anthology launched on 5th anniversary of Israel's Cast Lead onslaughtby Susannah Tarbush Israel's 23-day Operation Cast Lead offensive on Gaza, which lasted from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009,...
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Iraqi writer, satirist & columnist Khalid Kishtainy appears at Iraqi Cultural...
Khalid Kishtainy | The Man EntireKhalid Kishtainy is a controversial man of many parts, author of some 34 books, journalist, artist, politician and gripping story teller. People often see one part of...
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Caine Prize 2014 judging panel announced
Jackie KayThe chair of the judges of this year's £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing is the prize-winning Edinburgh-born Nigerian-Scottish poet, novelist and short story writer Jackie Kay MBE the...
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Wasif Jawhariyyeh's memoir 'The Storyteller of Jerusalem' launched in London
launch reflected the spirit of a unique Palestinian musician and chroniclerreport and photos by Susannah TarbushThe launch of The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh...
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2014 shortlist announced
IPAF 2014 shortlisted titlesMoroccan writers Youssef Fadel and Abdelrahim Lahbibi, Iraqi novelists Inaam Kachachi and Ahmed Saadawi, Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, and Egyptian Ahmed Mourad were today...
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Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival 2014 announces programme
The final programme of the Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival 2014, to be held in Asia House, London, from 6th - 21st May 2014, was announced in a press release today. The theme of this...
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'Al-Mutanabbi Street: Seven Years On' event held at London's Arab British...
Al-Mutanabbi Street, BaghdadOn the seventh anniversary of the car bomb that killed more than 60 people, wounded over 100 and destroyed around 50 bookshops in Baghdad's famous Al-Mutanabbi Street,...
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Lord Taylor questioned on British PM David Cameron's Muslim Brotherhood review
House of Lords Tuesday 8 April 2014 Muslim Brotherhood Question 3.01 pm Asked by Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Liberal Democrat)"To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what basis they have established...
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BQFP wins rights to 2013 IPAF winner The Bamboo Stalk
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing wins rights to 2013 ‘Arab Booker’ winnerSaud AlsanousiBloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP) has reached a deal to publish the English translation of...
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shortlist of 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing announced
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka announces Caine shortlist Jackie Kay MBE (photo credit Denise Else)“Compelling, lyrical, thought-provoking and engaging." This is how the chair of the judges of the...
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