by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | Feb 17, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Dammam – The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), announced on Thursday the shortlist for the 2017 prize, which includes six novels from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Egypt. The list consists of Kuwaiti Ismail Fahd Ismail, for...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | May 16, 2014 | Book Reviews
[inset_left]The Arch and The ButterflyBy Mohammed AchaariTranslated by Aida Bamia324 pages Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, Doha: May 2014[/inset_left]It is a rather disappointing beginning: the narrator, a middle-aged, Left-leaning Moroccan journalist,...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 30, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi novelist Ahmad Saadawi was named the winner of the seventh International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, in recognition of his latest novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad. Saadawi lauded the IPAF award in...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 26, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Blue Elephant (2012), best-selling Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad’s phantasmagoric novel shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), delves into the shadowy worlds of magic, sorcery, psychiatry and drug...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 19, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In his latest book, A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me, Moroccan writer Youssef Fadel takes the reader on a vividly imaginative odyssey through a dreary period of Morocco’s history. Fadel’s ninth novel is a fictional testament to the Years of...
