Podcasts about Naguib Mahfouz

From glistening skyscrapers and bustling downtowns to dark alleys and creeping urban decay, cities are endlessly complicated and diverse. And so are the books that take place in urban settings. This week, we share some of our favorite city books and chat about what makes these environments so fascinating. What are your favorites?ShownotesBooks* Pink Slime, by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust* Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson* The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* The Silentiary, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith* The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros* A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* The City and the City, by China Miéville* Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin* My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Anne Goldstein* Lush Life, by Richard Price* Solenoid, by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, translated by Sean Cotter* Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolfe* Ask the Dust, by John Fante* One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Máquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa* Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls* Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck* Ulysses, by James Joyce* New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* It, by Stephen King* The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides* Open City, by Teju Cole* Bleak House, by Charles Dickens* The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larsen* Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Trevor Le Gassick* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon* Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hoffman* Down and Out in London, by George Orwell* City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff Vandermeer* Cairo Trilogy, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan* The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell* London, by Edward Rutherford* Dublin, by Edward Rutherford* New York, by Edward Rutherford* Paris, by Edward RutherfordThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

La biografia e la bibliografia (in italiano) di Naguib Mahfouz, uno degli più grandi letterati arabi di sempre e l'unico a vincere il premio Nobel per la letteraturaIscriviti al canale Telegram per guardare tutta la lista di tutti gli eventi (ad oggi) confermati ed avvisatemi se ne conoscete altri Mentre qui trovate tutti i link di Medio Oriente e Dintorni: Linktree, ma, andando un po' nel dettaglio: -Tutti gli aggiornamenti sulla pagina instagram @medioorienteedintorni -Per articoli visitate il sito https://mediorientedintorni.com/ trovate anche la "versione articolo" di questo podcast. - Qui il link al canale Youtube- Podcast su tutte le principali piattaforme in Italia e del mondo-Vuoi tutte le uscite in tempo reale? Iscriviti al gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/mediorientedintorniOgni like, condivisione o supporto è ben accetto e mi aiuta a dedicarmi sempre di più alla mia passione: raccontare il Medio Oriente ed il "mondo islamico"

- Arba'in of Imam Husayn was commemorated on Sunday with 21.48 million visitors in Karbala, compared to 2 million in 2003. - Imam Husayn's uprising against Yazid remains an inspiring example of resisting tyranny. - Some scholars under tyrant rulers teach obedience to unjust rulers, condemning Imam Husayn's rebellion. - Independent scholars see Imam Husayn as a source of inspiration, including Shaykh Muhammad 'Abduh, who emphasized the duty to resist rulers who abandon Islamic principles. - Imam Husayn is described as the "lamp of guidance and the ark of salvation." - Oppressed individuals and those with clear consciences support the oppressed, as seen in global protests against oppression, including in Gaza. - University students are demanding divestment from companies involved in Israel's occupation of Palestine, with San Francisco State University beginning to divest from weapons manufacturers. - The women of Banu Hashim, particularly Zaynab, played a crucial role in spreading Imam Husayn's message after his martyrdom. - Imam Husayn's movement is divided into two phases: his leadership until Ashura and Zaynab's leadership afterward. - Zaynab's sermon in Yazid's palace challenged his tyranny, asserting that their memory and revelation could not be erased. - Yazid's grave is abandoned, while shrines of Zaynab in Damascus and Cairo are visited by both Sunnis and Shias, with devotees believing their prayers are answered through her intercession. - Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist, highlighted the deep devotion of Cairo's people to Zaynab's shrine in his writings. Friday Juma Khutba August 30th, 2024 Donate towards our programs today: https://jaffari.org/donate/ Jaffari Community Centre (JCC Live)

Qu'est-ce qu'être arabe ? En voilà une belle et grande question, qui fait trembler l'Occident, et qui évidemment n'a pas une seule réponse, surtout dans la tête de notre invité Sofiane Si Merabet, fils d'Algériens, né en France et vivant à Dubaï. Mille et une questions trottent chez ce voyageur polyglotte, travailleur pour l'industrie du luxe et tombé en amour pour les pays du Golfe. Un bien bel endroit pour dire la fierté d'être soi, en étant arabe, avec en poche plein de… et si. Et si la nostalgie très ancrée dans la culture arabe n'avait rien à voir avec le repli identitaire ? Et si le concept de futur de la nostalgie était devenu le mantra de notre invité ? Créateur du compte Instagram The confused arab suivi par plus de 85 000 followers, notre artiste - qui ne perd pas le nord - en a fait aussi un livre qui paraît c/o Belfond L'Arabe confus. Un livre où l'on peut tomber sur cette phrase : Chez soi n'est pas là où nous sommes nés. Chez soi, le home est là où toutes les tentatives de fuite cessent. Naguib Mahfouz

Qu'est-ce qu'être arabe ? En voilà une belle et grande question, qui fait trembler l'Occident, et qui évidemment n'a pas une seule réponse, surtout dans la tête de notre invité Sofiane Si Merabet, fils d'Algériens, né en France et vivant à Dubaï. Mille et une questions trottent chez ce voyageur polyglotte, travailleur pour l'industrie du luxe et tombé en amour pour les pays du Golfe. Un bien bel endroit pour dire la fierté d'être soi, en étant arabe, avec en poche plein de… et si. Et si la nostalgie très ancrée dans la culture arabe n'avait rien à voir avec le repli identitaire ? Et si le concept de futur de la nostalgie était devenu le mantra de notre invité ? Créateur du compte Instagram The confused arab suivi par plus de 85 000 followers, notre artiste - qui ne perd pas le nord - en a fait aussi un livre qui paraît c/o Belfond L'Arabe confus. Un livre où l'on peut tomber sur cette phrase : Chez soi n'est pas là où nous sommes nés. Chez soi, le home est là où toutes les tentatives de fuite cessent. Naguib Mahfouz

En este episodio hablamos de libros escritos por autores africanos ya que esta era la premisa del reto lector del mes de mayo. Aqui os dejamos la lista de los libros que hemos leído: - El café de Qúshtumar, de Naguib Mahfouz. https://amzn.to/3KJqimX - Nuestra Señora del Nilo, de Scholastique Mukasonga. https://amzn.to/3RrVcUP - Mujer en punto cero, de Nawal El Saadawi. https://amzn.to/4b6e3M1 - Americanah, de Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie. https://amzn.to/4cj9kHV Os dejamos enlaces patrocinados a los libros, por si queréis haceros con ellos. Usarlos no encarece el producto pero a nosotros nos deja una pequeña compensación que ayuda a que sigamos leyendo… Como siempre, si quieres aportar ideas o para contarnos tu opinión, hacernos sugerencias o preguntar cualquier cosa nos puedes encontrar en: Instagram: @me_lo_leo_podcast Twitter: @meloleopodcast Email: meloleopodcast@gmail.com

Today I‘m excited to be speaking with Ahmed Naji, a writer who spent two years in prison in Egypt for writing what the authorities judged to be objectionable material.But while Ahmed Naji was in prison, he discovered literature and through that, himself. It's an amazing story of a person who finds magic and hope in the unlikely environs of the library of a stereotypical prison—a pestilential and dank hovel, one biscuit short of hell.But before I talk to him, I thought it might be useful to get some context going here, so, a little bit, about Egyptian literature first. Modern Egyptian literature began to flourish in the early 20th century, or right up to say the 1940s, as writers started to break away from traditional Arabic literary forms such as classical Arabic poetry, with specific meters and rhyming schemes. It was during that time that author Taha Hussein, often called the "Dean of Arabic Literature," challenged classical literary norms, when he introduced a more accessible style of prose.The next decade saw the birth of a cultural renaissance with the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and the beginning of the republic. That's about when Naguib Mahfouz happened. He went on to win the Nobel in 1988 and brought world attention to Egyptian literature.As with all cultural forms, one decade tends to build on the previous and the successive decades have seen social realism, pioneering books, like "Woman at Point Zero", about the struggles of women in Egyptian society, and writers explained the challenges of contemporary life. There was the growth of female and feminist voices and of course the influences from the Arab Spring. Importantly, there has been a growth in contribution to literature from the Egyptian diaspora.I found Ahmed Naji's writing online and I was fascinated by his story and his work and we tracked him down to his new home in the United States. Ahmed's latest book Rotten Evidence is a story about his time in prison, about how he discovered literature and found the writer in himself and the reality of protest. These lines capture the essence of the protest against censorship and being jailed for alleged obscenity."James Joyce, who swore to express himself with the greatest degree of freedom possible—and never to serve home, fatherland, or church—said a writer had three weapons: silence, exile, and cunning. Well, Joyce, they put me in prison, and all I had left was laughter and rage."Such is the captivating prose of my guest today. Ahmed Naji joins me from his home in Las Vegas for this delightful conversation.ABOUT AHMED NAJIAhmed Naji is a writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker... and criminal. His novel Using Life made him the only writer in Egyptian history to have been sent to prison for offending public morality. Naji has won several prizes including a Dubai Press Club Award and a PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. He is currently a fellow at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. Buy Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison: https://litcity.in/rotten-evidenceWHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in "WHAT'S THAT WORD?!",  where they discuss the Arabic proverb  "BUKRA FI'L MISH MISH".CONTACT USReach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.comOr here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycityOr here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/

If you're a leader, you should be leading with questions, posits author Bob Tiede. By the time we got done with our conversation, he'd convinced me of just how important - and just how simple - it is.Here are a few of the show notes from our conversation.Leading with questions is crucial for motivating employees. It's important to ask the right questions in the right way.Questions should be purposeful and respectful. They should aim to gather information, understand the status of a project, develop or coach employees, moderate meetings, resolve conflicts, build trust, give feedback, or help employees reflect on their activities.However, questions can also be used to apply pressure, demonstrate power, and spread fear. Managers should be aware of how they might unintentionally put pressure on their employees with their questioning techniques.Open-ended questions, which cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no", are recommended. They provide more information and give insight into the motives, needs, opinions, and fears of the person being questioned.The question "why" is open but should be used with care as it can put people on the defensive. Instead of asking "why", it's better to ask "what was your intention?" or "what can we learn from this?" or "how can we do it better in the future?"The Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz said, "You can tell whether a person is smart from their answers and you can tell whether a person is wise from their questions."This conversation emphasizes the importance of asking the right questions in leadership and how it can significantly impact employee motivation and project outcomes.Learn more from Bob Tiede at https://leadingwithquestions.com  ★ Support this podcast ★ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit happyaf.substack.com/subscribe

 Meg Wolitzer presents three provocative works about rituals that reshape and define their characters. In “oh she gotta head fulla hair,” by Ntozake Shange, a woman's attention to her hair consumes her life. The reader is Tamara Tunie. In “Half a Day,” by Naguib Mahfouz, performed by Bruce Altman, time collapses and a lifetime goes by in a flash. And in Charles Baxter's “Fenstad's Mother,” a mother and son rehearse old patterns and find new ones. The reader is Edie Falco.

We wandered through Arabic poetry and prose to talk about many different forms of literary love: regretful love, unreciprocated love, bad love, vengeful love, liberating love, married love.  We read this poem by Núra al-Hawshán: “O eyes, pour me the clearest, freshest tearsAnd when the fresh part's over, pour me the dregs.O eyes, gaze at his harvest and guard it.Keep watch upon his water-camels, look at his well.If he passes me on the roadI can't speak to him.O God, such afflictionAnd utter calamity!Whoever desires usWe scorn to desire,And whom we desireFeeble fate does not deliver.” The Núra al-Hawshán poem, translated by Moneera al-Ghadeer, has a modern musical adaptation on YouTube produced by Majed Al Esa. Yasmine Seale's translation of Ulayya Bint El Mahdi. This poem and others were set to music on the album “Medieval Femme.” Do'a al-Karawan (“The Nightingale's Prayer”) by Taha Hussein I Do Not Sleep, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, trans. Jonathan Smolin The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz (1956-57) Al-Bab al-Maftouh (The Open Door) Latifa al-Zayyat, trans. Marilyn Booth (1960)  All That I Want to Forget, by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Michele Henjum. Rita and the Rifle, Mahmoud Darwish, made into a song by Marcel Khalife.  Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

It's literary prize season! When the Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced at the start of 2023, novelist Shady Lewis Botros turned his novel award down, launching a storm of criticism, defense, and discussion. Is it bad manners or good politics to turn down a prize? How do different prizes affect the literary landscape? How is the 2023 prize season shaping up? Show Notes:  Mada Masr published “A conversation with Shady Lewis Botros on the genealogy of literary refusal” The International Prize for Arabic Fiction recently announced their 2023 longlist, with a historically high number of women writers (half). Also in Jan 2023, Banipal Prize judges announced that two novels had won their 2022 prize. By coincidence, we did a joint episode on those two novels. PEN America recently announced their lit-prize longlists. Iman Mersal's The Threshold, translated by Robyn Creswell, made the poetry-in-translation longlist. In December 2022, Fatima Qandil's Empty Cages won the Naguib Mahfouz medal, and she said it was the first time she'd won a prize.

Starting in the mid 1940s and continuing through the 1960s, Egypt experienced a Golden Age of cinema. With the third largest private film production system in the world, Egypt acted as Hollywood to most all Arabic speaking countries; producing commercially minded hit after hit, with crowd pleasing stories, star players and big wig directors. Yet, as with most industries during the time, by the 1960s the bottom had started to fall out – The Nasser regime nationalized the industry in 1966, bringing a close to what had been a rather free wheeling time of cinematic exploration and focusing more on political mindedness and general entertainment. In this episode, Bart and Jenna dive into a positive who's who of Egyptian cinema. This dazzling array of famous Egyptian directors, films, and actors includes young Omar Sharif, Shukry Sarhan and Soad Hosny, bombshells Shadia and Hind Rostum, multiple Naguib Mahfouz adaptations, and even two films that broke through to the Western world: the Muslim Crusade epic Saladin and the internationally celebrated The Night Counting The Years. Not only do these foreign films not feel so foreign, but it turns out this might have been the most rewarding watch of the entire podcast season – all thumbs up!The following films are discussed:• The Beginning and the End (1960) بداية و نهاي Directed by Salah Abu Seif Starring Omar Sharif, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawki• A Rumor of Love (1961) إشاعة حب Directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab Starring Omar Sharif, Soad Hosny, Youssef Wahbi • Chased by the Dogs (1962) اللص والكلاب Directed by Kamal El Sheikh Starring Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi• Saladin (1963) الناصر صلاح الدين Directed by Youssef Chahine Starring Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Nadia Lutfi• The Sin (1965) الحرام Directed by Henry Barakat Starring Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, Abdullah Gaith• The Postman (1968) البوسطجي Directed by Hussein Kamal Starring Shukri Sarhan, Seif Abdelrahman, Zizi Mostapha• The Night of Counting the Years (1969) المومياء Directed by Shady Abdel Salam Starring Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi

Sally takes a swim in the river after a few days' absence from the boat, reflecting on how her natural surroundings fuel her writing. Her thoughts turn to her mother, who loved music; and she plays a song by Nina Simone, which Sally has often used as a teaching aid in her creative writing classes. It's an elegiac song, and Sally ponders how songs can help us unpick the difficult narratives of our own lives. At the end of the episode, Sally gets bad news about Philip, an old friend and student. She reaches for a passage from Shakespeare's The Tempest, an enraptured speech about music and the beauty of nature, and dedicates it to Philip in the final hours of his life. Further Reading The passage which Sally reads at the opening and ending of the episode is a rhapsodic speech by Caliban in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Caliban is the original owner of the island, having had it bequeathed to him by his mother Sycorax; but Prospero, the Duke of Milan and a magus, has taken over the isle, and enslaved Caliban. Despite his servitude and the brutality of his treatment, Caliban shows he is poetically attuned to the enchantments of the island. Many of the phrases and images in this speech link us to Prospero's famous reflections in Act 4 Scene 1, on the beauty and the transience of life and the inevitability of death: “our revels now are ended.” Sally's mother is a central character in her critically praised memoir (although Sally prefers the term “anti-memoir”) Girl With Dove, published by William Collins. You can find out more about her writing on Sally's website: https://sallybayley.com/ Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist, who recorded more than 40 albums between 1958 and 1974. The song Stars, which Sally analyses, was written and released by Janis Ian in 1974. Nina Simone covered it on the album Let It Be Me in 1987 and sang it live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976. The melancholy of the live performance reflects Simone's mourning for the passage of time, the fate of the anti-racism aspirations of the 1960s civil rights movement, and her own decline in popularity and stardom. The song can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/track/1OXBfwBYtj2AAKi6jom1qT#login This episode is dedicated to Professor Philip J. Stewart, who passed away shortly after it was recorded. Philip was a remarkable polymath who worked across the arts and sciences; with characteristic modesty, he described himself as a “Jack of all trades and master of none”. He studied Arabic and in the 1960s had a brief career as an Arabist, translating a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Naguib Mahfouz. He then took a second degree in forestry and worked in forest conservation and erosion control in Algeria, before teaching ecology in Oxford and writing widely on topics from chemistry and astronomy to music. When he retired, he dedicated himself to literature, writing a book about ten poets who lived or wrote on Boars Hill where he lived – poets such as Robert Graves, Matthew Arnold and John Masefield - called Oxford's Parnassus (Bothie Books, 2021). Since this episode was recorded, Sally has heard from Philip's daughter that she did indeed read Caliban's speech to him before he passed away The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding and the beautiful piano tracks used in the episode are written and performed by Paul Clarke We are currently raising funds to pay to keep the podcast going. If you would like to support us, please visit - https://gofund.me/d5bef397 Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far. Special thanks go to Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Lady Ronia.  

What's literary fiction?It's not easily defined. Maybe because literary fiction is not what it is but it isn't. Essentially, it is fiction writing that does not fit into any genre. Like crime, romance, horror, science-fiction, and other what have you genres.Another characteristic of literary fiction is that the story is driven by its protagonists or characters and not by a plot. It can speak of humanity, embrace a philosophy, dwell for pages on describing something that may well be inconsequential to the subject and indeed, stray very far from whatever plot or path it may have chartered for itself.You read literary fiction for the journey you make from cover to cover. It's not necessarily a whodunit, such that you get to the end only to find out that the butler didn't.For dint of its lack of conformity to genre, I reckon, literary writing is considered an art form and therefore an idealistic higher form. So does it follow that genre based literature is somehow mass media?And despite loud protestations to the contrary, the Nobel Prize for Literature has frequently gone mostly to writers of literary fiction. Also the Booker. To wit, literary fiction is not written with the objective of entertaining and amusing the reader. It calls for the reader to appreciate its prose.My guest today is Omar El Akkad, a craftsman if I ever read one. A few writers—very few—begin their careers by making a mark. He's one.Omar's first book, American War—a dystopian novel set in the future—received deservedly great accolade. Omar's latest work is a novel called What Strange Paradise. It is the story of a young Syrian refugee. The narrative alternates between his journey on a refugee boat and what ostensibly happens after it washes up broken, on a shore in Greece.Whatever it is that pundits accept as literary fiction, you might say Omar's prose rises to it.My introduction to him was his essay in the literary magazine, The Paris Review. I found the story—titled “Flight Paths”—so compelling that I asked my team to invite him to be my guest today on this podcast. And I was delighted he was available.So here he is. Joining us from his home in Portland, Oregon, is award winning literary novelist Omar El Akkad.ABOUT OMAR EL AKKADAuthor and journalist, he was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He won a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and others. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller, winning several awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times and others. His new novel, What Strange Paradise, was released in July, 2021 and won the Giller Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. It was also named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR and several other publications.Buy What Strange Paradise here: https://amzn.to/3b0YLiLWHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in the segment "What's That Word?", where they discuss the phrase "toe the line".WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW?Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com.Or here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycity.Or here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/.

“Tu hogar no es donde naciste, el hogar es donde todos tus intentos de escapar cesan.” Naguib Mahfouz

Sabine Vorin, agent de ménage, fut retrouvée morte, seule, dans les toilettes de la bibliothèque municipale Naguib Mahfouz du 20ème arrondissement de Paris, le 17 septembre. Elle travaillait précédemment dans l'enceinte de la Mairie de ce même arrondissement. La défunte avait été déplacée par son supérieur direct à la bibliothèque pour échapper aux remarques racistes, sexistes et grossophobes, proférées par le Directeur Général des Services de la Mairie. https://www.cjl.ong/?s=sabine+vorin La mort de Mme Vorin, au lieu de provoquer une prise de conscience de Madame Anne Hidalgo, maire de Paris et Frédérique Calandra, à l'époque du XXème arrondissement de Paris, a abouti à des procès baillons contre le CJL pour ses enquêtes et ma mise en examen à deux reprises. De plus, bien que les révélations du CJL ont été reprises par Le Parisien (https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-des-accusations-de-harcelement-contre-la-mairie-du-xxe-13-11-2018-7942098.php?ts=1653293006298) et Streetpress (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/paris/municipales-paris-frederique-calandra-maire-socialiste-du-20eme-rejoint-rangs-benjamin-griveaux-1737671.html), seul Yasser Louati est trainé devant les tribunaux. De plus, et ce qui rend la position de Anne Hidalgo encore plus impardonnable, c'est que la Mairie de Paris subventionne le financement de ces procès via protection fonctionnelle accordée à Didier Conques. Ce dernier, bien qu'écarté de la Mairie du XXème après les révélations du CJL, s'est retrouvé parachuté dans un autre service (https://www.cjl.ong/2019/10/13/accuse-de-harcelement-raciste-et-sexiste-la-mairie-du-vingtieme-se-separe-de-son-dgspour-le-promouvoir-ailleurs/) mais a engagé une vendetta personnelle avec de l'argent public. Sa supérieure hiérarchique Frédérique Calandra, elle, fut nommée Déléguée Interministérielle d'aide aux victimes http://www.justice.gouv.fr/delegation-interministerielle-daide-aux-victimes-12894/ par le Garde des Sceaux http://www.justice.gouv.fr/delegation-interministerielle-daide-aux-victimes-12894/ Personne n'a été inquiété pour la mort de Sabine Vorin, au contraire, les personnes accusées ont pu poursuivre leurs carrières. Cité dans ce podcast: Harcèlement Sexuel, Racisme: "Je vous avais alerté" Danielle Simonnet à Anne Hidalgo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d631s0G6_vM La CGT dénonce Didier Conques: http://daccgtculture.over-blog.com/2018/11/harcelement-propos-racistes-gestes-deplaces-la-mairie-du-xxe-desormais-sous-le-coup-d-une-enquete-administrative.html Frédérique Calandra (PS) soutien Benjamin Griveaux (LREM) après avoir perdu l'investiture de son parti après les révélations sur la mort de Sabine Vorin: https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/paris/municipales-paris-frederique-calandra-maire-socialiste-du-20eme-rejoint-rangs-benjamin-griveaux-1737671.html Accusé de harcèlement raciste et sexiste: La Mairie du Vingtième se sépare de son DGS…pour le promouvoir ailleurs https://www.cjl.ong/2019/10/13/accuse-de-harcelement-raciste-et-sexiste-la-mairie-du-vingtieme-se-separe-de-son-dgspour-le-promouvoir-ailleurs/ Du harcèlement au travail: Sabine Vorin, agente de ménage antillaise décédée dans le 20ème https://www.cjl.ong/2018/10/21/du-harcelement-a-la-solitude-sabine-vorin-agente-de-menage-decedee-dans-le-20eme/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lesideeslibres/message

Sabine Vorin, a cleaning agent, was found dead, alone, in the toilets of the Naguib Mahfouz municipal library in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on September 17, 2018.  What her death revealed, was the terror and racism faced by Black and Arab workers at the City Hall of Paris and how the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the Mayor of the 20th arrondissement Frederique Calandra (now in charge of helping victims http://www.justice.gouv.fr/delegation-interministerielle-daide-aux-victimes-12894/frederique-calandra-nouvelle-presidente-du-cn2r-33860.html), not only failed to address the issues when raised to them, but also decided to fund the legal harrassment of those who blew the whistle. In France, only 3% of the victims of racism dare to press charges.  Quoted in this podcast: https://www.cjl.ong/?s=sabine+vorin To support my work as I have been charged for the second time in relation to our investigations on the death of Sabine Vorin, please do so here: www.yasserlouati.com  If you are a journalist who want to cover this story, please DM me on https://twitter.com/yasserlouati  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lebreakdown/message

William Maynard Hutchins is a professor emeritus at Appalachian State University and an award-winning translator of Arabic literature, most famous for his work on “The Cairo Trilogy” by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. In this podcast, he joins New Lines' Kevin Blankinship to discuss his long and storied career. They discuss how he began his career, what it was like working with figures like Mahfouz and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and why, even after retirement, he continues to translate new novels. Produced by Joshua Martin

Née en Égypte, vivant désormais au Canada, Iman Mersal était jusqu'ici reconnue comme l'une des figures du renouveau poétique égyptien (poèmes réunis dans Des choses m'ont échappé, magnifiquement traduits en français par Richard Jacquemond et publiés chez Actes Sud/Sindbad). La voici désormais romancière, couronnée par le prix littéraire Sheikh Zayed, le plus prestigieux du monde arabe pour la première fois décerné à une femme. Iman Mersal est donc partie Sur les traces d'Enayat Zayyat, jeune écrivaine égyptienne qui s'est suicidée en 1963, à l'âge de 26 ans. Autrice d'un seul livre, qu'elle avait cherché en vain à publier et qui n'est paru qu'à titre posthume quatre ans après sa mort, son nom a été rayé de l'histoire de la littérature égyptienne des années 1960, période pourtant féconde qui vit s'affirmer les tenants du nouveau roman arabe dans le sillage du grand Naguib Mahfouz. C'est par hasard qu'Iman Mersal a découvert dans les rayons d'un bouquiniste L'Amour et le silence, le livre d'Enayat Zayyat, qui l'a conduit à s'embarquer dans une entreprise singulière, bien plus qu'une enquête littéraire passionnante et une plongée dans l'archive, bien plus qu'un essai féministe ou qu'une tentative de réhabilitation biographique à l'aune des enjeux politiques et sociétaux de l'Égypte nassérienne. Rarement une quête documentaire n'aura été aussi bien transformée en un immense objet littéraire. Avec Trésor national, Sedef Ecer fait le portrait d'une Turquie marquée par quatre coups d'État, à travers celui d'une actrice de cinéma, Esra Zaman, trésor d'un cinéma turc qui a connu son apogée dans les années 1960-70. Cette histoire nous est racontée par Hülya, la fille d'Esra, qui se fait désormais appeler Julya depuis qu'elle a coupé tout lien avec sa mère et quitté son pays natal pour s'installer à Paris. Le putsch raté de juillet 2016 l'oblige à se souvenir d'une enfance passée sur les plateaux, de la diva flamboyante qu'était sa mère, de la disparition non élucidée de son père, de cette Turquie laïque qui n'est plus. Malgré les tourments de l'histoire, sa mère n'a pas changé : elle continue à vivre dans l'illusion du cinéma, pour ses rôles et sa gloire. Elle prépare le dernier spectacle de sa vie, son enterrement somptueux au Théâtre de la ville d'Istanbul, et s'est mise en tête que sa fille en écrive le discours. Hülya hésite puis se décide : elle écrira l'histoire de cette mère qui l'a si peu été, cette femme à la fois soleil et démon. Deux pays auscultés par des procédés littéraires différents – fiction et non-fiction –, deux âges d'or à la fois réels et fantasmés qu'Iman Mersal et Sedef Ecer mettent au jour avec un grand art du récit. ___ À lire Sedef Ecer, Trésor national, JC Lattès, 2021. Iman Mersal, Sur les traces d'Enyat Zayyat, traduit de l'arabe (Égypte) par Richard Jacquemond, Actes Sud, 2021. ___ Une rencontre avec Sedef Ecer et Iman Mersal animée par Élodie Karaki et enregistr ée en public le 17 juillet 2021 dans les jardins de l'IMéRA à Marseille, lors de la 5e édition du festival Oh les beaux jours !.  ___ Un podcast produit par Des livres comme des idées. Montage : Clément Lemariey Voix : Benoît Paqueteau Musique : The Unreal Story of Lou Reed by Fred Nevché & French 79 2022 © Oh les beaux jours !.  

SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents three provocative works about rituals that reshape and define their characters. In “oh she gotta head fulla hair,” by Ntozake Shange, a woman's attention to her hair consumes her life. The reader is Tamara Tunie. In “Half a Day,” by Naguib Mahfouz, performed by Bruce Altman, time collapses and a lifetime goes by in a flash.  And in Charles Baxter's “Fenstad's Mother,” a mother and son rehearse old patterns and find new ones. The reader is Edie Falco. Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All this season, we will be doing short book-quiz episodes with prizes donated by ten distinguished publishers. We give the answer to the question from Episode 81, “Naguib Mahfouz's Banned Book” and a new challenge for listeners, regarding one of the books we discussed in Episode 82: “The Men Who Swallowed the Sun,” which features Bedouin migration from Egypt to Libya. Send your best guesses to bulaq@sowt.com. The first listener to respond with the right answer will get a book in the mail! 

Primeiro livro da "Trilogia do Cairo" do egipcio Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel da Literatura em 1988. Ed E -primatur. Trad. Badr Hassanein e Margarida Abrantes

What was so controversial about Children of the Alley, leading to it being banned for years in Egypt and to an attempt on the author's life? How and when was it published, criticized, understood?  Mohamed Shoair delves into all of this in his literary investigation The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children Of The Alley (trans. Humphrey Davies). It's a study of literary censorship and of the fight between artistic expression and religious and political authority in Egypt from the 1950s through today.  The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley will be available soon from AUC Press. An excerpt is available at the AUC Press website, as is the book's table of contents.

In this conversation, we talked to Roger Allen about  his career in translating the works of renowned Arab authors such as Naguib Mahfouz. Allen translated Mahfouz's God's World, that being the collection mentioned in the published citation of the Nobel Literature Prize Committee in 1988.Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

According to Egyptian novelist and pulitzer prize winner Naguib Mahfouz (nuh·geeb·maa·fooz) we can tell whether those around us are clever by their answers. However, we can tell if people are wise by the questions they ask. For anyone out there striving to embody that wisdom by having a mind full of good questions and solid questioning strategies, this is the episode for you!

Today's episode features a conversation with Robin Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, and Interim Librarian for African Studies at Yale University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Robin has been a librarian for 26 years, the last 10 of those being spent at Yale.  Robin's first major job was at University of Pennsylvania as a Middle East Studies bibliographer. She then worked at University of Texas at Austin, in Cairo at the American University in Cairo and in England working as a corporate cataloguer.  Robin was also a Senior Arabic Cataloger for the Library of Congress.   Robin talks with Matthew about first deciding to study Egyptology as a child, learning to speak Arabic in college to follow this dream, and then finding that college Arabic classes did not prepare one to effectively speak to the local population in Egypt.  Robin did two archeological expeditions and loves the movies and musical films of Egypt.  She worked in publishing at AUC Press when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel prize for literature and talks about how interesting it was to watch the process as they became his exclusive agent. Robin left Egypt to attend University of Michigan Library School. She talks about how difficult it can be in the U.S. to acquire materials from Middle Eastern libraries today, and how having good relationships with Middle Eastern vendors is very helpful.

Guest: Abdulrazak Gurnah | Author and Nobel Prize Literature Prize 2021 John is joined by the winner of the 2021 Nobel laureate for literature.  Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who is based in the United Kingdom.   The Swedish Academy shared the news on October 7th. They praised “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees in the gulf between cultures and continents.”  Gurnah has published 10 novels and is the 7th African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, following Albert Camus (1957), Wole Soyinka (1986), Naguib Mahfouz (1988), Nardine Gordimer (1991), J.M Coetzee (2003), and Doris Lessing (2007).  The win is landmark. Gurnah is only the fourth black person to win the prize in its 120-year history.  Gurnah grew up on Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, in the 1950s and 60s.  Several of his novels deal with leaving, dislocation and exile. In Admiring Silence, the narrator, though he builds a life and family for himself in England, finds himself neither English nor any longer Zanzibari. Prominent themes of his literature include exile, displacement and belonging, alongside colonialism and broken promises on the part of the state.  Most of his novels focus on telling stories about social and humanitarian issues, especially about war or crisis affected individuals living in the developing world that may not have the capability of telling their own stories to the world - or documenting their experiences.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, the first page of three books will be read:Everything Inside by Edwidge DanticatCrooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo FordPalace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

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Velkommen til tredje oplæg ved dette års Arabian Nights!  Denne gang ved Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, lektor ved Mellemøststudier ved Københavns Universitet, der har forsket i arabiseringen og islamiseringen af kalifatet i den tidlige periode (tiden fra år 632 og frem til ca. 1250). Han har desuden oversat bogen 'Sultan Saladin - En mellemøstlig legende' af Jonathan Phillips (Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag) til dansk.  Oplægget var en introduktion i form af en historisk kontekst til filmen Saladin (1963), instrueret af Youssef Chahine. Jerusalem er under belejring af korsridderne, der tilmed angriber sagesløse pilgrimme på vej til Mekka. Hærføreren Saladin står i spidsen for modstandskampen, men må også slås med interne kupforsøg. Ingen ringere end nobelpristageren Naguib Mahfouz var medforfatter på filmen, og Youssef Chahine fik for første gang stillet både farver og widescreen til rådighed. Filmen var en stor publikumssucces i sin tid, og den genvises i Cinemateket fredag den 27. august kl. 21, hvis man er interesseret i at se den. Billetter kan bestilles på www.dfi.dk. God fornøjelse! 

Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant Bloomsbury playwright who receives weekly treats from a mysterious admirer. Mallory's mother Face-times him from her Torquay home atop crumbling cliffs, hoping that a marriage might be in the offing. After discussing his latest show, a genius work-in-progress, Mallory breaks the news about a terrible fate that has befallen his most virulent and vitriolic critic. His mother hatches a plan . . . PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

Discover how Sheila Barclay returned from London to Belfast, soon scandalizing the already-divided society with her newfangled take on Irish stew. Learn how Sheila boomeranged back to London in triumph, where one of her first customers outside Green Park Station was Josie (before she became Bloomsbury's mysterious midnight walker). PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

Turtle was conceived during an eventful skinny-dipping session on the coast of North Wales. He is obsessed with trapping pigeons for their "good luck feathers", using skills he claims to have acquired from staying too long in his mother's womb. We learn how Turtle has employed these unappreciated skills around the world . . . PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

Jasper Mince recalls the tragic and fortuitous events leading to the day he came to be living secretly under the bed of his host. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

Jasper Mince is a troubled runaway from Yorkshire. He lives secretly in Ridgmount Gardens, coming and going by stealth. He works a security job nearby, sharing his shift with a culinary Hungarian, who obsesses over a cake named Marmalade Whoopsy. Dressed like a ninja, Jasper watches Josie depart on one of her nocturnal jaunts. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first heartwarming book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection, a charming and quirky magical realism series from the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, #1 Amazon Best Seller in several dark fiction categories. Audio drama exclusive preview! Allow me to introduce you to your eccentric new London neighbours! Some harbour secrets. Some stumble, tumble, or tiptoe through their days. Others hurtle towards outlandish destinies. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is as snug as an English country village, as intriguing as a Miss Marple mystery, and as enthralling as Tales of the City. This book is a literary antidote to the lock-down blues. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from September, 2021. Be enchanted by author D. J. Swales' debut feel-good novel of spell-binding and quirky magical realism fiction. The pages of PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY will charm readers of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Tales of the City, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Convenience Store Woman, The Diary of Adrian Mole, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and Palace Walk. Meet these neighbours and more: Josie is an nocturnal neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer. Mr. Bootle is the owner of an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima. Jasper Mince lives a clandestine rent-free life under the bed of an unwitting local resident. Mallory Blunder is a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario who swings from one stage disaster to another. Mrs. Sorpresa owns and runs a cavernous invitation-only Colombian cafe and bakery, while quietly nursing a broken heart . Mrs. Hargreaves and her two children cultivate a fifth floor ramshackle balcony farm nicknamed, The Hanging Gardens of Bloomsbury. Danny Savarino must confront the disappearance of his parents and and investigate their mysterious sightings around the world. Listen now, your new neighbours are waiting . . . Be charmed by this first book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming short-chapter books inspired by Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, and Haruki Murakami, and the work of Armistead Maupin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, Salley Vickers, and Matt Haig. Enjoy this audio drama exclusive preview podcast. This author is an independent creative. Please support him on PATREON or PAYPAL.

Discover your eccentric new neighbours! Josie is a nocturnal second-sighted ageing ballet dancer. Mr. Bootle, formerly of Bombay, is the enigmatic owner of The Druid's Eye bookshop. Mrs. Hargreaves harvests the bounty of a perilous window-ledge garden. Mrs. Sorpresa is the heartbroken Colombian proprietress of a cavernous invitation-only cafe. Mallory Blunder is a playwright determined to make it big after a series of theatrical disasters. Meet these characters and more, in the eclectic, bookish, and Bohemian London neighbourhood of Mary Shelley, Bob Marley, J.M. Barrie, Virginia Woolf, and Olaudah Equiano. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the debut book in the CURLED UP AND COZY COLLECTION, a series of charming and quirky books of short-chapter realism and magical realism, inspired by the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz, and the Japanese popular fiction of Hiromi Kawakami. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is available on Amazon from August, 2021. D. J. Swales is the author of FITZMARBURY WITCHES, a #1 Amazon Best Seller in dark fiction ( https://geni.us/Part1ebook ). PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is his first work of short-chapter, feel-good popular fiction.

This episode focuses on Driss Chraibi's The Simple Past (Le Passé Simple), a Moroccan novel about a very angry young man in revolt against his father's tyranny and the hypocrisies of his colonial education. Back in 1954, it was compared to an explosion – and it still packs a punch today.  Show Notes: The Simple Past was newly re-issued from NYRB Classics in Hugh A. Harter's 1990 translation, with a new introduction from Adam Shatz. Shatz's introduction is available online at the NYR Daily. Excerpts from Chraibi's interview with Federico Arbós can be found at Fragmentos de la entrevista con Federico Arbós, El Mundo/La Esfera, 28/3/92. This episode also references Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy and the father figure of Si Sayyed; Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club; and Tayib Saleh's Season of Migration to the North.

Have you ever tried to learn a language but found the process challenging and dull? Or maybe you were blessed with a special teacher that made learning an enjoyable and memorable experience.My guest this week is Dr. Ramzi Salti, a recipient of the Stanford Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is an author, a radio host and a lecturer in Arabic at Stanford University for over twenty years. He believes language goes hand in hand with learning about the culture and introduces his students to all styles of Arabic music and popular TV shows in an interactive and modern way.Today, we discuss how we met on his radio show Arabology, after my sketches from The Rania Show became a big part of his teaching. Ramzi describes how he broke free from teaching Arabic in the traditional way and how he started his Radio show in English during the Arab Spring in 2011. He also discusses his book "The Native Informant" tackling culture, family issues, and sexuality and going viral before viral even existed in 1994.In this episode, you will learn:Dr.Ramzi explains why he thinks podcasts are here to stay. (1:40)Dr.Ramzi talks about growing up in Lebanon before the civil war broke out in 1975 and his family moved to Jordan. (3:20)How Ramzi's mother was instrumental in him getting a PHD in the Arabic language. (5:00)What it felt like for Dr.Ramzi to receive the Stanford Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. (16:20)How Dr.Ramzi combined culture and language when teaching Arabic to his students (21:25)How breaking free was a process of unlearning the way he had been taught so he could make it more reachable to a new generation. (23:17)How Dr.Ramzi started his radio show at Stanford University KZSU (26:45)Discovering the groundbreaking and controversial Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila (31:58)How the series Ramy, winner of a Golden Globe award in 2021, was appreciated and accepted in the Arab world after it got the stamp of western legitimacy (34:38)How Rami Malek won the Oscar for playing the part of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. (36:08)Dr.Salti tackled feminism and homosexuality in 1994 when he published his book The Native Informant ( six tales of defiance from the Arab world). (38:04)Dr.Ramzi Salti describes how proud he felt to be published by Three Continents Press who were famous for translating Noble prize winner author Naguib Mahfouz's books.(44:42)A reading of one of Dr.Ramzi's short stories Vivian and Her Son which is now out of print (52:00)Connect with Ramzi:Arabology Blog: arabology.orgArabology YouTube Channel: youtube.com/RamziSaltiArabology on Facebook: facebook.com/arabologyArabology Podcasts: soundcloud.com/arabology/setsStanford Profile: profiles.stanford.edu/ramzi-salti LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ramzisaltiLet's connect!FacebookInstagramTwitterLinkedInWebsiteResources mentioned:ArabologyFairuzMashrou' LeilaRamy YoussefHiam AbbasRami MalekBohemian RhapsodyThe Native Informant and other storiesThree continents pressNaguib Mahfouz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode we will feature audio from an interview of Trevor Naylor, Sales and Marketing Director, The American University in Cairo Press. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Trevor began working in a bookshop when he was 18 years old, and has lived in Cairo for 12 years. He says the AUC Press recently celebrated its 100 year anniversary, but it wasn't until the 1960's and 70's that they saw a publishing need at the University and then that side of the business took off.  The press now has a very interesting and varied role and is a small and targeted business which allows Trevor the opportunity to be involved and to touch almost every part of the publishing process. He calls himself a "non-academic expert on Egypt" due to osmosis from the publishing industry there. Trevor also talks with us about his work with nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, known as the "Dickens of Egypt," and how the AUC publishing his book, Palace Walk, and the subsequent world wide demand for this book led to a great increase in their publishing overall. The AUC Press also started the Creswell Collection of Islamic Arts.  He says the AUC Press publishes books on Egyptology, Islamic studies and the Middle East for academic use and also for the curious public, and now some children's books.  

We talk to humorist Karl Sharro about the origins story of his Twitter alter-ego Karl ReMarks and about finding the ideal online nemesis. Marcia takes issue with a new book listing the “hundred best novels in translation.”  Show notes Karl Sharro spoke about Karl ReMarks' new book, And then God Created the Middle East and Said ‘Let There Be Breaking News' (and Analysis). The book is forthcoming July 9. Boyd Tonkin's The 100 Best Novels in Translation was released June 21. The two Arabic novels that made the list were Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, and Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan. The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, along with Martha Levin, and their notes on the manuscript can be found at the Lilly Library Manuscript Collections. You can read the Amazon press release online about how the mega-corporation has (finally) launched some 12,000 Arabic ebooks into the Kindle system. You can find and purchase them on Amazon.com.

Richard returns! We discuss the famous Al-Karnak (Karnak Café) directed byAli Badr Kahn in 1975. A political film, a critique of the previous regime, based on a novella by Naguib Mahfouz, and a 'model of de-Nasserfication'. The film is pulpy, melodramatic, sensationalist, a box-office smash. A very interesting work to discuss in relation to Chahine's The Sparrow (1972), which deals with similar subject matter but in a a very different way. Ali Badr Kahn and Mahfouz had previously collaborated with Chahine as well so the film is an interesting to focus to a whole series of issues that intersect with Chahine's work.

Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu.

Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

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Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently described through the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, specific pan-Arab ideals, or questions of Egyptian identity under Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, the religious and political spheres intersected within new forms of Egyptian cultural production.  In Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Mohammad Salama, Professor at San Francisco State University, explores how Egyptian authors and filmmakers articulate the role of religion and the nation in the lives of the modern subject. He provides a short genealogy of Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century that address questions of nationalism and Islamism and demonstrates how authors oscillate between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt. In our conversation we discuss the religious and political contexts of 20th century Egypt, British imperialism, the emergence of the novel in Egypt, well-known authors Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Yusuf Idris, the Muslim Brotherhood, short stories, theatre, national identity, and director Youssef Chahine. Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

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We take a look at a new book about the architecture of twentieth century Cairo, and discuss the Egyptian capital's past, present and future, and the way writers have shaped our view of it.   Show Notes: Mohamed Elshahed's architectural survey Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide is newly released from AUC Press, with a foreward by Mercedes Volait.  Elshahed's longtime blog, Cairobserver, is a must-read for anyone interested in the built world.  Another recent book that maps Cairo is Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi's A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo; N.A. Mansour recently wrote about both A Field Guide and Cairo Since 1900 in “Two New Books Preserving Cairo's Urban Landscape.”  Tawfiq al-Hakim's The Prison of Life: An Autobiographical Essay, in which he describes his father's time as an amateur architect, was translated by Pierre Cachia. Other Egyptian literary works that feature architects include Reem Bassiouney's novel Mortal Designs, translated by Melanie Magidow, and Naguib Mahfouz's play The Legacy.  Also discussed in this episode are Hamdi Abu Golayyel's novels Thieves in retirement (trans. Marilyn Booth) and A Dog With No Tale (trans. Robin Moger).

Francis Dordor revient sur l'histoire de Naguib Mahfouz, dans le cadre de l'exposition Orient Sonore présentée au Mucem à Marseille. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Show Notes and Links to Huda Al-Marashi's Work On Episode 26, Pete is honored to speak with Huda Al-Marashi, fellow Santa Clara Bronco alum and writer extraordinaire. They discuss, among other topics, the process of writing and publishing her novel, the writer's daily life, target audiences in writing, the "white gaze," and Huda's inspirations in life and in literature. Huda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story, a book the Washington Post called "a charming, funny, heartbreaking memoir of faith, family, and the journey to love. If Jane Austen had grown up as a first-gen daughter of Iraqi parents in the 1990s, she might have written this.” Excerpts from this memoir have also been anthologized in Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of Muslim American Women, Becoming: What Makes a Woman, and Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women and Extreme Religion. Her other writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship and an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellowship. First Comes Marriage was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers' Award. Huda currently resides in California with her husband and three children. Huda Al-Marashi's Website “A Birthday at the Cemetery” Huda's essay published in 2020 in The New York Times Pete discusses the chill-inducing ending of “A Birthday at the Cemetery” on Episode 16 Huda reads “An Index of Small Stings,” Oct. 2, 2020, as part of “Voices of California” Buy Huda's Wonderful Book Here-First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story Buzzfeed Video Features Huda Discussing Debunking Stereotypes about Arranged Marriages   Authors/Books Mentioned and Allusions Referenced During the Episode: Edward Said's Orientalism Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, Writer of The Cairo Trilogy    

"Impasse des 2 palais" est suivi par "Le palais du désir" et "Le jardin du passé" qui formaient à l'origine un seul roman: "La trilogie du Caire"  de Naguib Mahfouz traduit de l'arabe par Philippe Vigreux. Ecrit en 1956 et paru chez Jean-Claude Lattès en 1985. C'est un roman historique qui commence en 1917, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, et se termine alors qu'éclate la Révolution égyptienne de 1919. C'est entre la fin du règne du roi Farouk et l'avènement de Nasser. Le politique, le religieux et le social y sont inextricablement mêlés.  C'est aussi l'histoire d'une famille dont chaque membre représente une facette de la réalité sociale égyptienne.  Choix musical : U2 "Pride" et Mozart: concerto pour piano 21. 1er mouvement 

El escritor egipcio Naguib Mahfouz estuvo muy cerca de la muerte un 14 de octubre de 1994, cuando unos fanáticos religiosos intentaron asesinarle en El Cairo

El escritor egipcio Naguib Mahfouz estuvo muy cerca de la muerte un 14 de octubre de 1994, cuando unos fanáticos religiosos intentaron asesinarle en El Cairo

സഹാർ ഖലീഫ - കാട്ടുമുൾച്ചെടികൾ ജനനം -ജനുവരി 01, 1941, അധിനിവേശ ഫലസ്തീൻ പ്രദേശമായ നബ്ലസിൽ ഒരു പലസ്തീൻ എഴുത്തുകാരിയാണ് സഹാർ ഖലീഫെ. അവളുടെ കൃതികളിൽ നിരവധി നോവലുകളും ഉപന്യാസങ്ങളും ഉൾപ്പെടുന്നു, നിരവധി ഭാഷകളിലേക്ക് വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്, കൂടാതെ നോൺ ഫിക്ഷൻ രചനയും. ഇമേജ്, ഐക്കൺ, ഉടമ്പടി എന്നിവയ്ക്കായി 2006 ലെ Naguib Mahfouz ​​സാഹിത്യ മെഡൽ സഹാർ ഖലീഫയ്ക്ക് ലഭിച്ചു. നബ്ലസിലെ വനിതാ കാര്യ കേന്ദ്രത്തിന്റെ സ്ഥാപകനാണ് സഹാർ ഖലീഫ. ബിർ സീറ്റ് യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റിയിൽ നിന്ന് (പലസ്തീൻ, 1977) ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്, അമേരിക്കൻ സാഹിത്യത്തിൽ ബിഎ ബിരുദവും നോർത്ത് കരോലിന സർവകലാശാലയിൽ നിന്ന് എംഎയും (യുഎസ്എ, 1982) എംഎയും വനിതാ പഠനത്തിൽ പിഎച്ച്ഡിയും അയോവ സർവകലാശാലയിൽ നിന്ന് അമേരിക്കൻ വനിതാ സാഹിത്യവും നേടി. (യുഎസ്എ, 1988).

This week I am joined by another wonderful guest, Amina El-Annan, fellow English professor at Baruch College. We discuss a short story by Naguib Mahfouz entitled "Zaabalawi." We draw parallels between the narrators failed search for Zaabalawi and King Arthur's failed search for the Holy Grail in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We also consider the journeys of both the skeptic and the believer as they are presented in the short story and the television show The X-Files. We utilized the Norton Anthology World Literature, Volume F, 4th edition. Follow the podcast! Twitter: @whydowereadthis Instagram: @wdwrt_podcast Music: Fugue in C# Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1": J.S. Bach Music Synthesizer and Programming: Shawn P. Russell Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois

There are many classic trilogies of books known and loved the world over, and some that are lesser known but well worth diving into. In this episode, Jude and John recommend some of their favorite Trilogies and discuss why they are worth the investment of your time and energies. Ranging from epic fantasy quests to existential mysteries to poetic elegies of a fading time and culture, this discussion covers a ton of ground and should have something for just about any reader. It's a 3-for-1 special on the latest installment of the Book XChange! BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE: Trilogies recommended by both John and Jude: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King) - J. R. R. Tolkien The Border trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain) - Cormac McCarthy The New York trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room) - Paul Auster Other titles from Jude: Current read: 'The Mirror and the Light,' Hilary Mantel Other recommended trilogies: The Divine Comedy trilogy by Dante Alighieri, the Los Angeles trilogy by James Ellroy, the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanDerMeer Upcoming read: 'Paper Doll'/'Project X,' Jim Shepard Other titles from John: Current read: Various short stories by Jim Shepard Other recommended trilogies: The Africa trilogy by Chinua Achebe, the Cairo trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, the Barrytown trilogy by Roddy Doyle Upcoming read: Various short stories by Jim Shepard (in preparation for Episode 12)

**CONTENT ADVISORY: Brief discussion of spousal abuse (re: Hemingway) at 40:15** This episode, your hosts decided to get a little loosey-goosey and come in and just.... chat. And, perhaps surprising no one, when given the opportunity to discuss literally anything, we ended up talking about LITERATURE (and Death to Smoochy). Topics include: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, the time Willie was almost in a sex cult, Lennie hands, why did we all read House of Leaves?, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. 

  We discuss a book that tells the stories of women who rallied to ISIS; one that focuses on a Franco-Moroccan family grappling with the end of colonialism; and a picaresque, satirical novel  from 1940s Egypt that has been recently re-discovered. Show Notes: Ursula's review of Guest House for Young Widows, a book about women who joined ISIS, appeared in the last issue of The Point magazine. It references a few other books, such as Dunya Mikhail's  The Beekeeper of Sinjar (which gathers the testimonies of Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS) and David Thomson's The Returned, about French jihadis. Ursula's review of the Moroccan-French author Leila Slimani's latest novel, Le Pays des Autres, will be out soon in the New York Review of books. Slimani's The Perfect Nanny was an international best-seller; her new book is part of a planned historical trilogy set in Morocco. Adel Kamel's long-forgotten, now-remembered classic Malim al-Akbar recently appeared in English as The Magnificent Conman of Cairo. A special section on ArabLit marks the launch. Literary detective Mohamed Shoair is author of the acclaimed 2018 popular history Children of the Alley: The Story of the Forbidden Novel, which follows the story of Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel. A chapter of Shoair's book appears online in Samah Selim's translation. Mahfouz talks briefly about the Harafish, his circle of literary friends, in Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber: Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001, from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy. Albert Cossery was a French writer of Levantine origin, born in Cairo. Although he settled in Paris in 1945, he set all his wonderful novels — about criminals, layabouts and would-be revolutionaries — in Egypt or the middle east.  The crime issue of ArabLit Quarterly is available now.

Elena Brugioni, professora da Unicamp e autora do livro “Literaturas Africanas Comparadas” é a convidada desta semana do podcast. Na conversa com o repórter Eduardo Sombini, ela analisa como a ampliação do espaço das literaturas africanas nos circuitos editoriais globais vem sendo acompanhada, em diversos casos, da persistência de estereótipos sobre a África e de leituras reducionistas sobre o universo literário do continente. No final do episódio, ela indicou autores de países africanos com obras disponíveis no Brasil. Veja a lista: João Paulo Borges Coelho, 65, moçambicano Pepetela, 78, angolano Wole Soyinka, 85, nigeriano Tsitsi Dangarembga, 61, zimbabuana M. Coetzee, 80, sul-africano Doris Lessing (1919-2013), britânica, viveu por mais de duas décadas na Rodésia do Sul, atual Zimbábue Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), sul-africana Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), egípcio Abdulai Sila, 62, guineense

Naguib Mahfouz é egípcio e o primeiro árabe a ganhar um prêmio Nobel, em 1988. Com produção vertiginosa durante toda a vida, lançou mais de 30 romances, 300 contos e 70 peças, fora outros escritos. Tendo acompanhado revoluções durante toda a vida, a sua própria também foi uma revolução: trabalhou como diretor de censura no começo da carreira para tornar-se um herege às vistas dos líderes políticos e religiosos do Egito, culminando numa tentativa de assassinato em 1994. Sua grande obra é Noites das Mil e Uma Noites, escrito e publicado entre o fim dos anos 70 e início dos anos 80. Aproveitando o encantamento das Mil e Uma Noites, Mahfouz recria, a partir do final aberto da peça árabe milenar, o universo de encantamento, aplicando-o outros novos matizes. Em Noites das Mil e Uma Noites, o sultão Shariar torna-se benevolente-quase-bobo, os gênios atuam como agentes de mudança extrema na trama e o louco é o grande sábio. Os contornos humanos em contos que se completam, fazem-nos viajar pela cidade sem nome numa época que remete à Idade Média, a grande protagonista da história. Importante: Arte feita por Nátali Nuss (Instagram: @nuss.art). Para mais informações e outros episódios, acessem nosso site www.centralredepoderosa.com.br. O podcast Rede Poderosa de Intrigas também está no Instagram e no Twitter como @poderosarede. Para sugestões de pauta, críticas, parcerias, anúncios e mais, nosso e-mail é redepoderosa@gmail.com. Esse episódio é uma produção da Central Rede Poderosa. Até a próxima!

What does it take, as individuals and as a community, to welcome wisdom? Cultures change, norms change, language changes… but where is wisdom in all this? Naguib Mahfouz wrote, “You can tell whether one is clever by their answers. You can tell whether one is wise by their questions.” Let’s throw open the doors of our hearts to questions, and think about how we can use this wisdom gift to live into our dream of a world community where peace, liberty, and justice are available to us all. [Please also check the videos section of our Facebook page for a recording of the message via FB Live.]

We take a look at a new book about the architecture of twentieth century Cairo, and discuss the Egyptian capital's past, present and future, and the way writers have shaped our view of it.   Show Notes: Mohamed Elshahed's architectural survey Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide is newly released from AUC Press, with a foreward by Mercedes Volait.  Elshahed's longtime blog, Cairobserver, is a must-read for anyone interested in the built world.  Another recent book that maps Cairo is Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi's A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo; N.A. Mansour recently wrote about both A Field Guide and Cairo Since 1900 in “Two New Books Preserving Cairo's Urban Landscape.”  Tawfiq al-Hakim's The Prison of Life: An Autobiographical Essay, in which he describes his father's time as an amateur architect, was translated by Pierre Cachia. Other Egyptian literary works that feature architects include Reem Bassiouney's novel Mortal Designs, translated by Melanie Magidow, and Naguib Mahfouz's play The Legacy.  Also discussed in this episode are Hamdi Abu Golayyel's novels Thieves in retirement (trans. Marilyn Booth) and A Dog With No Tale (trans. Robin Moger).

This podcast is about: what are the meanings in Naguib Mahfouz's reflections and dreams at the end of his life? And how do these writings relate to his life-long oeuvre of novels? What was he trying to leave us with? Tarek Osman's website: https://tarekosman.com

للاستماع إلى بودكاست بعد أمس http://aj.audio/click  This episode focuses on Driss Chraibi's The Simple Past (Le Passé Simple), a Moroccan novel about a very angry young man in revolt against his father's tyranny and the hypocrisies of his colonial education. Back in 1954, it was compared to an explosion – and it still packs a punch today.  Show Notes: The Simple Past was newly re-issued from NYRB Classics in Hugh A. Harter's 1990 translation, with a new introduction from Adam Shatz. Shatz's introduction is available online at the NYR Daily. Excerpts from Chraibi's interview with Federico Arbós can be found at Fragmentos de la entrevista con Federico Arbós, El Mundo/La Esfera, 28/3/92. This episode also references Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy and the father figure of Si Sayyed; Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club; and Tayib Saleh's Season of Migration to the North.

'The Quarter', de Naguib Mahfouz, e 'Adeus, Gana', de Taiye Selasi, foram as escolhas de Raphael Lima e Gabriel Benamor.

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Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say thatA Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University in Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto itself. It takes the names of streets in Central Cairo and uses them as a basis for its telling of Cairo’s urban history. Structured like a dictionary of sorts, it is the kind of book that can be read cover-to-cover or in snatches here and there. In this interview, we cover the origins of the project, how it was written, and ultimately what shapes the city of Cairo itself. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004) and Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (NYU Press 2014), in addition to novels by Naguib Mahfouz and Gamal al-Ghitani. He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Lesley Lababidi is the author of Cairo Practical Guide (AUC Press, 2011, 17th ed.), Cairo’s Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008), Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, 4th ed., 2010), and Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2005). An active and well-traveled blogger, she currently lives between Cairo, Beirut, and Lagos. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say thatA Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University of Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto itself. It takes the names of streets in Central Cairo and uses them as a basis for its telling of Cairo’s urban history. Structured like a dictionary of sorts, it is the kind of book that can be read cover-to-cover or in snatches here and there. In this interview, we cover the origins of the project, how it was written, and ultimately what shapes the city of Cairo itself. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004) and Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (NYU Press 2014), in addition to novels by Naguib Mahfouz and Gamal al-Ghitani. He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Lesley Lababidi is the author of Cairo Practical Guide (AUC Press, 2011, 17th ed.), Cairo’s Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008), Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, 4th ed., 2010), and Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2005). An active and well-traveled blogger, she currently lives between Cairo, Beirut, and Lagos. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say thatA Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University of Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto itself. It takes the names of streets in Central Cairo and uses them as a basis for its telling of Cairo’s urban history. Structured like a dictionary of sorts, it is the kind of book that can be read cover-to-cover or in snatches here and there. In this interview, we cover the origins of the project, how it was written, and ultimately what shapes the city of Cairo itself. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004) and Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (NYU Press 2014), in addition to novels by Naguib Mahfouz and Gamal al-Ghitani. He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Lesley Lababidi is the author of Cairo Practical Guide (AUC Press, 2011, 17th ed.), Cairo’s Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008), Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, 4th ed., 2010), and Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2005). An active and well-traveled blogger, she currently lives between Cairo, Beirut, and Lagos. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say thatA Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University of Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto itself. It takes the names of streets in Central Cairo and uses them as a basis for its telling of Cairo’s urban history. Structured like a dictionary of sorts, it is the kind of book that can be read cover-to-cover or in snatches here and there. In this interview, we cover the origins of the project, how it was written, and ultimately what shapes the city of Cairo itself. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004) and Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (NYU Press 2014), in addition to novels by Naguib Mahfouz and Gamal al-Ghitani. He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Lesley Lababidi is the author of Cairo Practical Guide (AUC Press, 2011, 17th ed.), Cairo’s Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008), Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, 4th ed., 2010), and Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2005). An active and well-traveled blogger, she currently lives between Cairo, Beirut, and Lagos. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sweeping and evocative portrait of an Egyptian family at a time of great social change, from Nobel Prizewinning author Naguib Mahfouz. 'Writing worthy of a Tolstoy, a Flaubert or a Proust' said The Independent newspaper but what did Laura's book club make of it? Listen in to find out, plus lots of great recommendations to help you find your next book club read. • Recommendations were Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh, The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and Sally recommended The Map of Love by Ahdef Soueif and The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning. • If you'd like to see what we're up to between episodes follow us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. And if you like what we do please do take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes, it helps other listeners find us and means you'll never miss an episode.

My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite's superbly titled debut novel, has been one of the literary sensations of 2019 –nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction and long listed for the Booker. But what did both our book clubs make of it? Does it merit all the acclaim? Listen in to find out.  Heads up: it's SPOILER-full, so don't listen unless you've read the book, or have no intention of reading it. • Books mentioned on this episode: Ponti by Sharlene Teo, Half of a Yellow Sun, Why We Should All be Feminists, and Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngoze Adiche and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.  • On our next book club show, we'll be discussing Palace Walk, the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. • To keep up with us between shows follow us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. And if you're not already, why not subscribe to us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. If you have time to rate and review us we will love you forever, it helps other listeners find our pod.

แขกรับเชิญคนแรกของ Readery Podcast เราชวนนักอ่านอย่าง ธนาธร จึงรุ่งเรืองกิจ เลือกหนังสือ 3 เล่มที่อยากพูดถึง ซึ่งครอบคลุมทั้งเรื่องประวัติศาสตร์ เศรษฐกิจ และวรรณกรรม มาแลกเปลี่ยนมุมมองกันอย่างหลากหลาย การอ่านสำคัญกับธนาธรอย่างไร และหนังสือเหล่านั้นเปลี่ยนแปลงมุมมองเขาไปอย่างไรบ้าง Time Index 09:12 The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy ของ Pietra Rivoli 12:01 โคตรไคโร ของ Naguib Mahfouz และ เด็กเก็บว่าว ของ Khaled Hosseini 15:13 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco ของ Bryan Burrough และ John Helyar 29:58 น้ำหอม ของ Patrick Süskind 36:20 เศรษฐกิจการเมืองสมัยกรุงเทพฯ ของ ผาสุก พงษ์ไพจิตร และ คริส เบเคอร์

Brea and Mallory talk about tracking your reading and interview podcaster and translator M. Lynx Qualey! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch   Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Amazon Wish List Dark Delicacies Fundraiser   M. Lynx Qualey Bulaq Books Twitter   Arabist Twitter   Arabist World Kid Lit Twitter ArabLit   Books Mentioned - Girl by Blake Nelson Untrue by Wednesday Martin Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf, translated by Jonathan Wright How To Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal Withered Flowers by Stella Gaitano, translated Anthony Calderbank Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

Join Lauren Weinhold (end.notes) and I as we discuss our favourite translations we read in 2018 Mentioned in this episode; Sphinx by Anne Garréta (translated by Emma Ramadan)Georges PerecA Void by Georges Perec (translated by Gilbert Adair)The Restless by Gerty Dambury (translated by Judith G. Miller)And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier (translated by Rhonda Mullins)Reading Envy (latest episode with Lauren talking about Science September)Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover)The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor)HHhH by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor)Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska (translated by Clare Cavanagh)Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)      *Note, the author mentioned on Lauren’s Instragram post about this book that the term ‘gypsy’ was use as this was how the people described themselves.The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Episode on Faces in the CrowdSidewalks by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Tell me How it Ends by Valeria LuiselliAdrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz (translated by Frances Liardet)The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (translated by Nick Caistor)Roberto BolañoThe Translation DatabaseGabriel García Márquez 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) The Literary Discord Find Lauren Weinhold onlineInstagram: end.notesGoodreads: LaurenW   Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.comTwitter: @translationspodInstagram: translationspodLitsy: @translationspodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/   Produced by Mccauliflower.

It's the birthday of Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz (1911), who delivered his acceptance speech in Arabic when he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988.

Boy oh boy, we go deep on Anastasia, the first book in the Ringing Cedars series by Vladimir Megre. Is it a Russian cult?  A ponzi scheme? An elaborate prank on us, your sweet and unsuspecting hosts? All we know for sure is that this sh*t is f*cking insane. Wake up and smell the cedars, people, this is a wild ride. Links: Video on homesteading, Vladimir explains Anastasia, more about homesteading. Books mentioned: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl; Dan Brown, Angles and Demons; Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch; Maxwell Maltz, Psycho Cybernetics; Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk; Paul Le Farge, The Night Ocean; Dara Horn, Eternal Life; Sarai Walker, Dietland. Email us at thatbookpod@gmail.com. Friend us on Goodreads and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

In this episode we talk about recent developments in Cairo, kids’ literature in Arabic, Naguib Mahfouz, and the launch of Marcia’s new project, the literary magazine ArabLit Quarterly .

Narration of the preface of this classic! Quote unquote... “The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. The men and women of a modern Cairo neighborood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors: from the feudal lord who disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another to the test, to the savior of a succeeding generation who frees his people from bondage. This powerful novel confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling and his status as "the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" Naguib Mahfouz - Children of the Alley email: metafizzishin7@gmail.com https://instagram.com/metafizzishin7

Karl Sharro spoke about Karl ReMarks’ new book, And then God Created the Middle East and Said ‘Let There Be Breaking News’ (and Analysis). The book is forthcoming July 9.Boyd Tonkin’s The 100 Best Novels in Translation was released June 21. The two Arabic novels that made the list were Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, and Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan. The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, along with Martha Levin, and their notes on the manuscript can be found at the Lilly Library Manuscript Collections.You can read the Amazon press release online about how the mega-corporation has (finally) launched some 12,000 Arabic ebooks into the Kindle system. You can find and purchase them on Amazon.com.

Ursula and MLQ discuss a moving new book documenting the suffering and the resourcefulness of Yazidi women taken captive by Daesh, and the efforts to help them escape; and the perversely dull newspaper columns of the great Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz.

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ raccontato da Paola Caridi

Joining Charles Adrian near West Kensington tube station in London for the 107th Second-Hand Book Factory is hungry actor, producer and writer Kevin Shen. They talk about empathy with uncomfortable protagonists, good deaths of bad guys and the relatable life of an everyday Egyptian family. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Black Swan in 2004; cover illustration by Murray Zanoni. Vera Chok, mentioned by Kevin in this episode, is the most-interviewed guest on Page One. Two of her most recent episodes can be found here and here. More information about the episode, including book listings, is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of murder. This book rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His study remains sensitive to the cultural, political, social, and economic circumstances that shaped Qutb's thought-major developments that composed one of the most eventful periods in Egyptian history. These years witnessed the full flush of Britain's tutelary regime, the advent of Egyptian nationalism, and the political hegemony of the Free Officers. Qutb rubbed shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, though his Islamism originally had little to do with religion. Only in response to his harrowing experience in prison did Qutb come to regard Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and therefore mutually exclusive. Calvert shows how Qutb repackaged and reformulated the Islamic heritage to pose a challenge to authority, including those who claimed (falsely, he believed) to be Muslim.Review"This rich and carefully researched biography sets Qutb for the first time in his Egyptian context, rescuing him from caricature without whitewashing his radicalism. It is no small achievement."--The Economist"In one of the first serious English-language biographices of Qutb, Calvert puts this often misunderstood figure into his historical context, situating Qutb within the turbulent intellectual and political flow of Egyptian and Arab history. He expertly shows the development of Qutb's thinking, from literary critic to Islamist, and powerfully details the impact of the repression and torture carried out by the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser on his turn towards the stark, radical doctrines which have shaped generations of Islamist radicals. Fascinating details emerge in this book. . . . The Qutb which emerges from Calvert's even-handed history is far more complex and interesting than the caricature of him which dominates popular understanding. Anyone interested in the evolution of Islamism in the 20th century should read it."--Atlantic Monthly"The best biographies balance the person, the person's achievements, and the environment in which that person worked. This one of Sayyid Qutb (1906-66), considered by both friends and foes to be a founding father of radical Sunni Islamic thought, does just that. Calvert presents a portrait of Qutb worthy of a psychobiography, without the excesses of the genre."--Foreign AffairsAbout the AuthorJohn Calvert is Associate Professor of History at Creighton University, USA. His research focuses on social protest and political resistance movements in the modern Middle East; Egyptian nationalism; and the ideological origins of Al Qaeda. He is co-editor and translator of Sayyid Qutb's A Child from the Village.

Jim agrees with Wallace's love for Disgrace, by South African writer J.M. Coetzee - though Jim says Coetzee's "not brilliant". He describes the Cairo trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz as "a landmark work". Jim recommends Somalian writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali "for an unparalleled insight into what Islam means for those who interpret the Koran literally". She was subjected to female circumcision at the age of five and over the years turned away from Islam. Jim tells Wallace about the value of entering another culture in a novel: "You only know what human nature is capable of if you read what's happened to it in a variety of societies."

Food writer Diana Henry has just collected a James Beard Award in America for her latest book 'A Bird in the Hand'. Straight from the plane she joined Sheila Dillon at the Bristol Food Connections Festival. In Part 1 of the interview she shared about growing up in Antrim, how a revelatory French exchange fuelled her excitement about cooking and starting out in TV. She shared works by Naguib Mahfouz and Seamus Heaney. In this second part, she shares more of her chosen excerpts on food - including memoirs, online journalism and restaurant reviews - and explains what each of the authors bring that inspires and excites her. The podcast including both parts of this interview are available from this programme page. Readers: Rebecca Ripley and Sam Woolf Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.

Mission Encre Noire Tome 16 Chapitre 210 Aujourd'hui à DésOrienté, une émission vraiment spéciale, car Jean-Pierre vous présente Naguib Mahfouz, un des auteurs les plus marquants de la littérature arabe moderne, avec une carrière qui s'étend sur près de 60 ans et qui a donné le jour à plus de 50 romans et recueils de nouvelles, carrière aussi qui lui a valu le Prix Nobel de Littérature en 1988. À l'émission, nous nous penchons sur Karnak Café, paru en langue arabe en 1974 et disponible en français depuis 2010 aux éditions Actes Sud, Babel. L'histoire se déroule au Caire, capitale égyptienne, vers la fin des années 1960, en pleine période nassérienne.  Mahfouz y fait un compte rendu amer du nouveau socialisme arabe, à travers l'histoire de 3 étudiants, trois amis dont la vie bascule après un passage dans les geôles du pouvoir. Roman politique, roman troublant, il demeure un ouvrage d'actualité, 40 ans après sa publication, parce qu'il met en exergue les dissensions au sein d'une société qui, d'une part aspire à une révolution, et de l'autre, toute l'impasse politique et social qui l'empêche.    Extrait: Je découvris le Karnak par hasard. J'étais allé porter ma montre à réparer, rue Mahdi, et devais la récupérer quelques heures plus tard. Puisqu'il me fallait attendre, je décidai de tuer le temps en admirant les bijoux et bibelots exposés dans les boutiques qui bordaient la chaussée. Ce fut au cours de ma promenade que je tombai sur ce café. Et, malgré son exiguïté et sa situation en retrait de la rue principale, il devint dès ce jour-là mon repaire favori. Il est vrai que j'hésitai un instant sur le seuil, jusqu'à ce que j'aperçoive, assise à la caisse, une femme. Une femme d'un certain âge, mais qui gardait l'empreinte d'une beauté passée. Ses traits fins et nets caressèrent les fibres de ma mémoire et firent jaillir le flot des souvenirs. J'entendis résonner l'écho d'un tambourin, un parfum d'encens titilla mes narines, un corps ondula, celui d'une danseuse orientale! Oui, c'était elle, l'étoile de l'Imad Addine, Qurunfula, la star, le rêve incarné des florissantes années 1940.  Éric profite de l'actualité littéraire des dernières semaines pour présenter deux auteurs incontournables. Je soussigné Mahmoud Darwich paru en 2015 aux éditions Actes Sud/l'orient des livres de Ivana Marchalian, comme son titre l'indique est l'occasion rêvée de découvrir le fameux poète. Un livre entretien avec la journaliste libanaise Ivana Marchalian qui réussi à approcher en douceur l'écrivain, encore réticent à donner des entrevues en 1991. La Palestine est au coeur de cette oeuvre immense, ses textes interprétés et chantés par des millions d'arabes dans le monde sont des symboles de la liberté et de la révolution. Mahmoud Darwich décédé en 2008, recevra des obsèques nationales à Ramallah. Extrait:  Ma mère, c'est ma mère. Si je pouvais défaire sa taille et sa chevelure de la malédiction des symboles, je le ferais. Oui, j'ai laissé mon visage dans son mouchoir, car loin d'elle, je perds mes rêves. Et lorsque, de toute la tragédie qui se déroule dans et autour de mon pays, je ne revendique que le mouchoir de ma mère, je recouvre ma véritable personnalité, une image conforme à ce que je suis et non telle qu'elle a été définie par le grand crime commis dans mon pays d'une part, ni par l'héroïsme d'autre part.   Paru aux éditions Mémoire d'Encrier en 2016. Sur Fanon, le second ouvrage est à porter à l'initiative de Bernard Magnier, journaliste français et conseiller littéraire au théatre du Tarmac à Paris. Lors d'une représentation en 2013 de l'oeuvre de Franz Fanon, Les damnés de la terre, une invitation a été lancée à une trentaine d'écrivains (es): Comment parler de l'immense héritage de l'écrivain Franz Fanon aujourd'hui ? Comment nous faire vivre et vibrer à la lecture de ses mots ? Comment faire ressentir la brûlure matricielle de la découverte de ses textes initiatiques ? Franz Fanon, c'est cette lumière dans les ténèbres de la colonisation. Mort en 1966, il aura cherché toute sa vie, dans le combat, à libérer l'homme, pour le salut commun. Né en Martinique, résistant de la première dans la France occupée, il sera combattant du côté du FLN algérien.Son oeuvre reste diablement d'actualité. C'est avec ferveur et admiration que ces trente auteurs(es) replacent Franz Fanon dans le débat actuel et de la plus brillante façon possible: du bout de leur plume, originale, personnelle et militante.  Extrait: Et si Saint-John Perse, autre antillais, m'émerveillait par la beauté de sa poésie et son univers, l'heure était à l'attachement à Franz Fanon qui nous incitait avec son écriture enflammée jusqu'à contester Léopold Sédar Senghor à cause de sa proximité avec le président habib Bourguiba. Ses deux esprits, pères de leur nation, adhéraient à la francophonie, à l'internationale socialiste, se comportaient avec modération à l'égard de l'ancien colonisateur. Sans laisser de place au doute, nos convictions prenaient fait et cause pour Fanon: voilà un martiniquais qui choisit de devenir Algérien par amour de la justice. Grand frère et défenseur des opprimés. Comment ne pas le faire figurer dans notre panthéon ? Fallait-il pour cela sacrifier l'immense poète qu'est Senghor ? Trop pressés pour apprécier les oeuvres à leur juste valeur !

Cairo. The facts say one thing: the biggest city in Africa and the Middle East and now so chaotic and polluted that most visitors to Egypt prefer to avoid it. This same city also speaks to us of history and humanity – Moses and Jesus, Arab poets and Napoleon’s scholars who were here beside the Nile. It speaks of brilliance, beauty and power, of Europeans looking on in amazement at a Cairo that was the trading partner of Venice and of such importance that the Arabian Nights narrator called it the Mother of the World. More recently, through writers such as Nobel prizewinner Naguib Mahfouz and Alaa Al-Aswany, it has spoken of humour amid hardships, of both compassion and corruption. Having seen Cairo shift and grow over the past twenty-five years, former resident Anthony Sattin examined the streets, the stories and the history of Cairo in an attempt to reconcile the myths with the facts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Comedian Al Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, and Egyptian political economist Tarek Osman discuss their favourite books with presenter Harriett Gilbert. Al's choice is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Tarek's is the controversial Egyptian novel Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, and Harriett picks Everyman by Philip Roth. Producer Beth O'Dea.

This long-awaited work, assembled by Reza Aslan, features literature from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, many presented in English for the first time. Celebrate this landmark publication with a stellar cast who will read from a diverse selection of authors- from Khalil Gibran to Naguib Mahfouz, from Orhan Pamuk to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai.

De passage au Québec comme invité d’honneur du Salon du livre de Montréal 2008, le journaliste et romancier Mohamed Salmawy a prononcé à l'Auditorium de la Grande Bibliothèque le 19 novembre dernier la conférence La scène littéraire égyptienne contemporaine : Naguib Mahfouz et la relève devant un public ravi de refaire avec lui le parcours de ce prix Nobel 2008. Président de l’Union des écrivains égyptiens et secrétaire général de l’Union générale des écrivains arabes, M. Salmawy est rédacteur en chef et collaborateur de l'édition française du journal égyptien Al-Ahram Hebdo. Son œuvre de fiction, composée de nombreux ouvrages littéraires, pour la plupart traduits, a été couronnée par plusieurs distinctions et prix internationaux.