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  • Jan Dost signs his book, a woman with a hijab stands in front of him.
    Jan Dost on writing in Arabic and Kurdish

    "Like being caught between two magnets"

    "Safe Corridor" is Jan Dost's first novel translated into English. The prolific Syrian writer explores the hardening impact of war on children and discusses the key differences between writing in Kurdish and Arabic.

  • Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri
    New Choukri translation

    The absurdist frame

    In Mohamed Choukri's varied and experimental collection "Tales of Tangier" the hyperreal meets the bizarre. The off-kilter stories put forward by the late author seem to be set spinning on their edges, so fast and wild they might just fly off the page

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    Kuzey Topuz and "Der Freund"

    The human as board game

    In her debut novel, "Der Freund" (The Friend), Kuzey Topuz has created a complex weave of fragments and perspectives. The book is all about power and influence in interpersonal relations and at a societal level. It's a masterstroke

  • Photo montage: Syrian author Zakaria Tamer / Cover of the Arabic edition of Zakaria Tamer's "Sour Grapes"
    Zakaria Tamer's "Sour Grapes"

    Always subversive

    Playing with language in his short-short collection "Sour Grapes" – now in English translation – Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer doesn't hesitate to employ the winking humour, quick reversals and archetypes that are a part of his wide appeal

  • Sudanese author Stella Gaitano
    Sudanese literature

    Children to fill the entire earth

    Stella Gaitano's debut novel "Edo's Souls", set between Sudan and South Sudan, stages an epic battle between the forces of Motherhood and Death

  • Doves in a tree
    Kurdistan + 100

    Stories from a future republic

    "Kurdistan + 100" is the third anthology in Comma Press's "future past" series, and a fourth – Egypt + 100 – is set to be published next year. Writers are asked to imagine a moment in the future connected to an event in their shared past

  • Bust of Khalil Gibran in his hometown of Bsharre, Lebanon
    Lebanon

    Khalil Gibran's hometown celebrates 'The Prophet' centennial

    Nestled in the mountains of northern Lebanon, a museum dedicated to Khalil Gibran in his hometown of Bsharre has been celebrating the centennial of "The Prophet", the renowned author's most famous work

  • Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book
    The deserted villages of the soul

    Yavuz Ekinci's new novel

    Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book

  • Their bodies might be displaced, torn away from homes and villages. Yet the memories of women and girls in Sheikha Helawy's short-story collection "They Fell Like Stars from the Sky" remain, haunting the spaces where they once lived.
    'They Fell Like Stars from the Sky'

    Sheikha Helawy's joyous, rebellious passions

    Their bodies might be displaced, torn away from homes and villages. Yet the memories of women and girls in Sheikha Helawy's short-story collection "They Fell Like Stars from the Sky" remain, haunting the spaces where they once lived. Marcia Lynx Qualey read the book

  • Specialising in bold, exciting, contemporary Arabic literature, Europe-based 10/11 represents a select group of literary writers. Agents Sandra Hetzl and Katharine Halls talk about their tastes and selection criteria, how they divide their work, and what they love (and don't) about literary agenting.
    10/11, not 9/11

    New literary agency for a new approach

    Specialising in bold, exciting, contemporary Arabic literature, 10/11 literary agents Sandra Hetzl and Katharine Halls talk to Marcia Lynx Qualey about their tastes and selection criteria, how they divide their work, and what they love (and don't) about literary agenting

  • Philosophy, Arab world trend

    Erich Fromm's advice for troubled times

    The writings of German-American philosopher Erich Fromm (1900-1980) are trending in the Arab world. Claudia Mende asked Hamid Lechhab, translator of Fromm's works into Arabic, what might be behind this

  • Language develops in different areas of the brain. Researchers have been able to show that the way these are linked varies according to the respective native language – knowledge that could prove useful in the treatment of stroke patients, for instance.
    Language and language acquisition

    How the brain processes German and Arabic

    Language develops in different areas of the brain. Researchers have been able to show that the way these are linked varies according to the respective native language – knowledge that could prove useful. By Katrin Ewert

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