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The Bad Immigrant by Sefi Atta; Interlink Publishing Nigerian-American fiction writer and playwright Sefi Atta, whose work is published by Interlink Publishing of Northampton, has written a number of novels that plumb the experiences of Nigerian...

In the late 1970s, Michel Moushabeck came to the United States to study history at New York University, escaping from war-torn Beirut and the Lebanese Civil War. It was, he recalls, “quite an eye-opening experience,” and he “immediately embraced...

Independent publishers share their creative moves at Publishers Conference in Sharjah

The undulating spirit of independent publishers and the current renaissance in indigenous storytelling were celebrated on the second day of the 11th Publishers Conference held in Expo Centre Sharjah on Monday, ahead of the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF).

Some 520 publishing professionals are traveling to the UAE for the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair and its Publishers' Conference.

Back in the early 2000s, Sefi Atta was searching for a publisher for her first novel, “Everything Good Will Come,” a story of the friendship of two girls in Nigeria in the early 1970s and their growth into adulthood. She’d been writing for years even...

SBA Publishers Club session on March 4 27 Feb 2021 Fatimah Abbas will explore the potential market for translated works. The Publishers Club, a virtual discussion series launched in 2020 by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), has announced its next session to be held on March 4 (Thursday). Titled ‘Market and Demand for Translated Books: Arabic vs English’, the session will have Fatimah H. Abbas, Director of Dawen Publishing House, Egypt, a literary translator and in...

THE WANDERING PALESTINIAN 242 pp. bhc Press. $25.95 hardcover, $15.95 paperback, $7.95 ebook. Anan Ameri’s recently released memoir “The Wandering Palestinian” is beautifully written in the tradition of Arab story telling. Its humorous and poignant vignettes travel the reader to Beirut, Detroit, Washington DC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Jerusalem. It successfully interweaves the forty-year personal narrative of a free spirited Arab woman who arrives in the USA in 1974, with the larger ...