LITERATURE/POETRY

Prague Writers' Festival

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 )

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Latest News

06/02/2012

At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash  Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

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03/02/2012

The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.

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16/01/2012

Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems

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12/01/2012

Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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09/01/2012

Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.

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08/01/2012

Ibrahim Aslan, one of Egypt's best-loved authors, has died of heart failure at the age of 77.

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