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Marcia Lynx Qualey

Marcia Lynx Qualey is a freelance cultural journalist for Al Masry Al Youm English edition, World Literature Today, the Guardian, the Believer, as well as other publications. She also writes a blog, Arabic Literature in English.

November 2016

  • Kuwait international book fair

    'It's like they were selling heroin to schoolkids': censorship hits booksellers at Kuwait book fair

    Many Arab book fairs have been a free space for publishers to sell titles banned in shops, but Kuwait has seen raised levels of censorship – turning the book trade into a risky business

January 2016

  • Kuwait City.

    New Arabic short story prize meets with cautious welcome

    The AlMultaqa award has opened for entries, with a longlist to be announced in October, amid hopes that judging will be fully impartial

December 2015

  • Alaa al-Aswany.

    Egypt shuts down novelist Alaa al-Aswany's public event and media work

    State security forbids high-profile critic of President al-Sisi from holding public seminar, after censoring his writing and media appearances

November 2015

  • Samandal magazine

    Lebanese comic fights for survival after free-speech sanctions

    Samandal launches crowdfunding campaign to save itself after editors convicted and fined for ‘denigrating religion’

February 2015

  • International prize for Arabic fiction shortlist: Jana Elhassan

    Repression, religion and exile feature on shortlist for International prize for Arabic fiction 2015

    ‘Arabic Booker’ shortlist sidesteps senior novelists for young and unknown writers from six countries

November 2014

  • Impac Dublin prize

    Books blog
    Small world: Impac prize’s version of global literature is distinctly parochial

  • Cairo book fair

    Books blog
    YA fiction treads carefully in the Arab world

October 2014

  • Ali Bader

    Books blog
    True histories: the renaissance of Arab Jews in Arabic novels

    Marcia Lynx Qualey: From Ali Bader to Mohammad al-Ahmed, Middle Eastern writers have brought Arab Jews back into Arabic literature

May 2014

  • Ahmad Saadawi

    Books blog
    International prize for Arabic fiction turns to Iraq

    Marcia Lynx Qualey: Ahmed Saadawi becomes first Iraqi to win the 'Arabic Booker' for Frankenstein in Baghdad
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