You May Hold My Falcon

9/17/2011

Visit Welcome to Abu Dhabi, the Minister of Culture said. You may hold my falcon as we visit. He slipped …

Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation

9/13/2011

I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …

8/23/2011

I’ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry …

8/4/2011

I decided to take a break from the run of Arabic fiction I’ve been reading to catch up with a …

7/25/2011

As local author Adam Hochschild makes the rounds with his latest, amazing book, To End All Wars [following King Leopold’s …

6/9/2011

Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …

5/31/2011

I’ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies, …