Nazan Maksudyan was awarded the 2020 Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies book award for Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I. The committee describes the book as “impeccably written, highly readable…. providing both a new approach to the study of children and a new approach to working in and interpreting archives. This is simply a wonderful book.”
Joshua Stacher discusses why Egypt is in its current state, what happened to the revolution, and his new book, Watermelon Democracy, with Tugrul Mende on openDemocracy.
Listen to Patricia J. Higgins discuss the art and process of translating Hafez in Love with Mitch Teich on North Country Public Radio’s First Person series. Higgins is a University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emerita at the State University of New York Plattsburgh. Listen to the full interview here.
Patrick Bixby discusses his recent book Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy with Marci Mazzarotto on the New Books Network podcast.
Peter Lourie talks canoeing down the entirety of the Hudson river and his book River of Mountains with Mitch Teich on North Country Public Radio.
Chip Rossetti, translator of Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories, was featured in Shelf Awareness’s “Reading with” series.
Reem Bassiouney, author of Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy and The Pistachio Seller, was awarded the National Prize for Excellence in Literature from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Please find the full list of winners here.
When you read a translation, whose words are you reading? Reem Bassiouney and M Lynx Qualey join Faisal Al Yafai and Lydia Wilson on New Lines podcast to discuss Arabic literature in translation and why some translations alter the author’s original meaning.
Award-winning author Reem Bassiouney discusses the inspiration for her novels and her forthcoming book Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy on Majalla.
Dewaine Farria’s debut novel Revolutions of All Colors is included in Shelf Awareness’ annual “Best Fiction of 2020” list.