Plethora of GOOD selections, funny this is written in English though, funny 🙂
Well, perhaps this one was a bit morbid:
The “Five Before You Die” was a feature we ran back in the summer 2010; by now, there are now many more great Arabic books available in translation, but this remains a strong list from translators, authors, critics, and publishers.
Although he might not put it on his resume, Mustafa was perhaps the first supporter of this blog. He teaches at Northeastern University, translates, and is the editor and translator of the excellent Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology. His picks:
- Tayeb Salih,Season Of Migration To The North
- Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar
- Assia Djebar, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
- Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah
- Alifa Rifat, Distant View Of A Minaret & Other Stories
Mahmoud Saeed
Saeed is the acclaimed and award-winning author of Saddam City, among many other works. We have since run an interview with him here
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Observations of a tired sOul. 
I’m glad you re-blogged this. It is from an excellent blog site by a professor-translator that has a lot of great information about Arabic writers and their works, whether translated or not, and includes links to articles in Arabic. The blog author is a great supporter of contemporary Arabic literature and its reaching the widest audience possible. She lives in Egypt and the US.
Now that you have given this list your seal of approval, I shall add it to my “to be read in Arabic” list. 🙂
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I`m glad I got to know that blog! 🙂
I have read a few of the list but definitely on my (ever growing) to-read list 🙂
Hopefully I`ll be back and comment on them, or at least on the ones I shall read.
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It would be great if you could post your “book reviews”!
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القائمة متعبة من كثر ما فيها!!!
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معك كل الحق!
أعتقد أن محاولة الإحاطة بأطياف الاهتمامات المختلفة (الرئيسة فقط!) يؤدي لمثل هذا!
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