Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
Sherif Meleka will be talking about his new novel Suleiman’s Ring, translated by Raymond Stock (Hoopoe, 2023), signing copies, and reading extracts from the novel, at two separate events this month, hosted by Barnes & Noble
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
Here are some great reads for this spring and summer…. To read at home, in the garden, on a plane, on the beach, at the pool, at a café…. Anywhere! These novels will take you on a journey to Cairo, …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
Elizabeth Loudon’s novel, A Stranger in Baghdad, longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, published by Hoopoe, will be out in May 2023.
Hoopoe sat down with Elizabeth Loudon to find out more about why she set the novel in …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
In this recent interview with Ahmed Taibaoui, the Algerian writer speaks about Mr. Nobody, the central character in his noir novel The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody, translated by Jonathan Wright (Hoopoe, 2023), for which Taibaoui won the 2021 Naguib …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to write about an enchanted ring which brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player, creating …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe in 2022, is one of the two winners chosen for …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
1y ago
The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel, translated by Humphrey Davies, is among the three shortlisted works for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
In their official online announcement released on
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
2y ago
Don’t miss this very special webinar!
Tuesday, January 11
7pm Cairo / 5pm London / 12pm New York / 9am Los Angeles
Zoom registration https://bit.ly/32CiFfQ
Join us for a rare Virtual Book Talk with Jonathan Smolin, translator of I
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
2y ago
Peter Daniel, a long-term resident of Egypt, has worked as a teacher of Arabic as a foreign language and an Arabic-to-English translator for many years. In this interview, he looks at the challenges he faced translating Ashraf El–Ashmawi’s The Lady …
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Hoopoe - Stories from the Middle East
2y ago
Ever since Nektaria Anastasiadou’s A Recipe for Daphne came out (Hoopoe, 2021), so many readers have posted comments about the novel!
“A wonderful companion”
“Delightful”
“An emotional story full of longing and laughter”
“Eagerly await your next story”
“[A] gem”…
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