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Lebanon’s Francophone Book Fair Honors Camus, Features Local, Int’l Talents

By Olivia Snaije Opening on the heels of the Francophone summit in Montreux, Switzerland – Lebanon’s 17th Francophone book fair kicks off this Thursday in  … 

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IPAF Mentors Young Arabic Writers, Produces Anthology

By Edward Nawotka Fiction writing in Arabic has suffered from neglect in international circles, with most of the attention going to poets or political manifestos.  … 

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Web-based Entrepreneurs in the Arab World

By Chip Rossetti Today’s Gulf News — the English-language daily based in Dubai — has an interesting piece on entrepreneurs in Lebanon who are using  … 

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A Rare Book Signing in Saudi

By Mark Garcia-Prats At the Virgin Megastore in Saudi Arabia, four women authors were signing copies of their newest books for devoted fans. Though this  … 

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$270,000 Arabic Kid’s Lit Prize Under New Management

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2010 Arab American Book Award Winners

By Edward Nawotka The  winners of the 2010 Arab American Book Award presented by the Arab American National Museum are: Fiction: Master of the Eclipse  … 

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Against the Odds: Bringing Arabic Kids Books to Life in Beirut

By Olivia Snaije BEIRUT: Dar Onboz is a small, Beirut-based publishing company with big dreams. Founded in the spring of 2006, just before the Israeli  … 

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Book Fest In the Shadow of the World’s Tallest Building

By Edward Nawotka There are certain authors who seem to pop up on nearly every literary festival roster — we’re looking at you Alexander McCall  … 

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Saudi Author Abdo Khal Wins Arabic “Booker”

By Edward Nawotka Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal won the $60,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arab Booker) for his novel Spewing Sparks as Big  … 

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“Nobody is under the illusion that literature can change the world.”

By Erin L. Cox In this week’s The New Yorker, Claudia Roth Pierpont writes an interesting piece on the contemporary Arabic novel and the movement  … 

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