Twenty Years
What has changed in the last twenty years in Arabic literature, publishing and translation? What has not?
The sponsor of this episode, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, was founded in 2006. It was followed by a number of other shifts: the globalization of regional book fairs, the founding of many other book prizes (particularly in GCC countries), the ever-increasing role of digital books and media.
In this episode we talk to five SZBA winners–Ibtisam Barakat, Marina Warner, Maria Dadouch, Said Khatibi, and Hooda Shawa–about the personal consequences of winning such a big prize, about how the…
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