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February 13, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Israel Prize for Literature might not be granted this year because all of the judges resigned to protest the Prime Minister’s Office. The Folio Prize... -
February 9, 2015 |
Assia Djebar. Photo by Irmeli Jung. The editors and staff of World Literature Today were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Algerian-born novelist, translator, and filmmaker Assia...
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To Hisham Harbi
who said to me: “don’t stay in the shadows”
but I didn’t listen
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Ever since early Islam, Jews have been dubbed the people of the book. The title stuck in European lands too, a deferential nod to the role of the...
