When I learnt the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic I grew up with was dying out, I wrote a book to protect its future Talking for my generations: Samantha Ellis and her book. Left, from top: the writer's maternal ...
THE ARABIST UNDER WRAPS: According to the literary editor of the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, an “Iraqi exile living in Israel” has written the best study ever of the seminal modern Iraqi poet Abd ...
The tradition of literary translation from Arabic is not long. It was only in 1966, when Al-Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North was published, that a contemporary Arabic-language title ...