On 4 April the home of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was destroyed in a car bomb in Baghdad: Denys Johnson-Davies remembers a dear friend
It's a rare experience for someone whose main interest in life has been the renaissance that came about in Arabic (...)
Book review:
Reading Modern Arabic Literature
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, David Tresilian, London: Saqi, 2008. pp184
Recently modern Arabic literature seems to have made several long strides all at once. It is interesting to (...)
I first met Naguib Mahfouz shortly after arriving in Cairo in 1945. Aware that a renaissance of Arabic literature was taking place at the hands of a group of writers, of whom Naguib Mahfouz was one, I made a point of getting to know some of them and (...)