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Humphrey Davies, an award-winning translator into English of some of the most important and renowned works of contemporary Arabic literature, including novels by Egyptian Nobelist Naguib Mahfouz and prominent Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in London. He was 74.
He introduced numerous novels, including works by the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, to English language readers.
A collective exhibition exploring socio-economic and environmental issues through photography, walking and video documentation is currently on at The Mill, Art,
The tumultuous journey of a family from Malta to Tunis to Marseille that started a century ago is the subject of an exhibition currently on at Spazju Kreattiv,
Mourid Barghouti in Our Hearts: The Poet Passes Away at 76 Published February 17th, 2021 - 10:32 GMT Mourid Barghouti and family (twitter) Mourid Barghouti is a renowned Palestinian poet who passed away on Sunday, February 14, at the age of 76, in the Jordanian capital Amman. Born in the Palestinian village of Deir Ghassanah, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on July 9, 1944, Barghouti spent most of his life in exile. The legacy that Barghouti left behind is extremely rich, not only because he was one of the most articulate defenders of the Palestinian cause, but because his writing...