LITERATURE/POETRY

www.laurahird.com
Official site of Scottish writer Laura Hird

Laura Hird's LIT MAG CENTRAL - http://laurahird.com/litmagcentral.html

www.poetrylondon.co.uk
Website of Poetry London magazine

The British Council's literature websites http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-publications-and-resources-our-websites.htm

Poetry International Web
International poetry ezine from Rotterdam Poetry International

FESTIVALS

Liverpool's Arabic Arts Festival 2-16 July 2006 - http://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/arabicartsfestival/index.html

www.poetry.nl – Rotterdam Poetry International

www.literaturfestival.com – Berlin International Literature Festiva.  2009 saw Focus Arab World with more than 30 Arab authors present at readings, discussions and interviews.

PUBLISHERS

For Arab Literature in English Translation

www.aucpress.com – The American University in Cairo Press (USA and Middle East)

www.arabiabooks.co.uk – Arabia Books (UK)

www.interlinkbooks.com – Interlink Publishing (USA)

www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu – Syracuse University Press – Middle East Literature in Translation list


PLASTIC ARTS AND ARTISTS

www.daratalfunun.org - Darat al-Funun - Abdul Hameed Showman Foundation (From Jordan : A home for the arts and artists of the Arab world )

Arts Council England
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Remembering Tayeb Salih, who died last year on 18 February.

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11/01/2010

The winner of the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is Samah Selim for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet by the late Yahya Taher Abdullah.

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29/11/2009

January 2010 – an innovative and intensive workshop for Arabic to English and English to Arabic literary translation – fiction and plays

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26/11/2009

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16/11/2009

The 16 titles and authors on the Long List of the 2009-2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction were announced in Cairo today . . .

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