Daily Archives: November 25, 2014

West-East Divan or Procrustean Bed? (Al-Kalimah/The Word February 2007)

The Word Volume I Issue2 February 2007

by Nicola Liscutin

In 2002, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany, initiated a project of “new forms of literary encounters aimed at improving the mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern literature.”

Rashid Al-Daif: Writing to Yasurani (Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005)

Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005

By Youssef Rakha

Novelist, humorist, linguist, professor: Rashid Al-Daif is, in more ways than most critics are willing to recognise, the Arab world’s answer to Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco.

Rashid Al-Daif: Writing to Yasurani (Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005)

Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005

By Youssef Rakha

Novelist, humorist, linguist, professor: Rashid Al-Daif is, in more ways than most critics are willing to recognise, the Arab world’s answer to Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco.

Rashid Al-Daif: Writing to Yasurani (Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005)

Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005

By Youssef Rakha

Novelist, humorist, linguist, professor: Rashid Al-Daif is, in more ways than most critics are willing to recognise, the Arab world’s answer to Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco.

Writing to Combat Memory Loss (Qantara 2004)

Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country’s civil war clearly in his mind’s eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author

Writing to Combat Memory Loss (Qantara 2004)

Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country’s civil war clearly in his mind’s eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author

Writing to Combat Memory Loss (Qantara 2004)

Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country’s civil war clearly in his mind’s eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author