Links
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 )
Latest News
06/02/2012At 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.
[read more]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.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]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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