AiW note: ArabLit describe themselves as a translator-centered “loose collective” that produce a website, quarterly magazine (ArabLit Quarterly), and a limited book series (ALQ Books) focused on Arabic literatures in translation. They also run an annual ArabLit Story Prize, an… Read More ›
Cairo
Review – An Artist’s Awakening: Two Women in One by Nawal El Saadawi
Following on from our review of Saqi Books’ 2020 reprint of Nawal El Saadawi’s The Fall of the Imam (first published in 1987), ‘A Dizzying Tale of Duality’, we are now reviewing the second in our series of their re-releases,… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Luxor African Film Festival, 16-22 March 2017, Cairo, deadline: 15 December 2016
Luxor African Film Festival 16-22 March 2017, Cairo submissions deadline: 15 December 2016 Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) launches the call for its sixth edition due 2017 from the bureau of the Egyptian Culture Ministry The administration of Luxor African… Read More ›
Exhibition: Three Photographers/Six Cities, 30 April – 25 September 2016, Philadelphia
Three Photographers/Six Cities April 30, 2016 – September 25, 2016 Philadelphia Museum of Art Experience six African cities through the work of three extraordinary photographers. This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of… Read More ›
Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa – special offer for AiW readers
We’re delighted to be able to offer African in Words readers free access to the first five staves (chapters) of Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa. Monday 19th January 2015 saw the launch of digital serial publisher The Pigeonhole’s first real-time book, Pigeon… Read More ›