Two very different Egyptian novels – Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s The Men Who Swallowed the Sun and Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping – both circle around issues of migration in different ways. Abu Golayyel’s Men (originally The Rise and Fall of the Saad Shin), translated by Humphrey Davies, is an anti-epic epic told in a rough, powerful storyteller’s voice, following men as they move from Egypt to Libya and Italy. Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, translated by Robin Moger, is a beautifully crafted sonic landscape of appearances and disappearances.

Show Notes

An excerpt of The Men Who Swallowed the Sunis available at the Hoopoe Fiction website.

“The practice and culture of smuggling in the borderland of Egypt and Libya,” by Thomas Hüsken, is available on the Chatham House website.

An excerpt of Slippingappeared at LitHub.

Abu Bakr Khaal’s novel African Titanics, translated to English by Charis Bredon, is available from Dar al-Saqi and Darf Books.

Two very different Egyptian novels &ndash; Hamdi Abu Golayyel&rsquo;s The Men Who Swallowed the Sun and Mohamed Kheir&rsquo;s Slipping &ndash; both circle around issues of migration in different ways. Abu Golayyel&rsquo;s Men (originally The Rise and Fall of the Saad Shin), translated by Humphrey Davies, is an anti-epic epic told in a rough, powerful storyteller&rsquo;s voice, following men as they move from Egypt to Libya and Italy. Mohamed Kheir&rsquo;s Slipping, translated by Robin Moger, is a beautifully crafted sonic landscape of appearances and disappearances.
Show Notes
An <a href="https://aucpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/9781649030948.pdf">excerpt of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun</a> is available at the Hoopoe Fiction website.
&ldquo;<a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/ia/INTA93_4_08_Husken.pdf">The practice and culture of smuggling in the borderland of Egypt and Libya</a>,&rdquo; by Thomas H&uuml;sken, is available on the Chatham House website.
An <a href="https://lithub.com/slipping/">excerpt of Slipping</a> appeared at LitHub.
Abu Bakr Khaal&rsquo;s novel <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6687927">African Titanics</a>, translated to English by Charis Bredon, is available from Dar al-Saqi and Darf Books.

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt.

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BULAQ is a podcast about contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa. We talk about books written in Aleppo, Cairo, Marrakech and beyond. We look at the Arab region through the lens of literature, and we look at literature -- what it does, why it matters, how it relates to society and history and politics -- from the point of view of this part of the world.  BULAQ is co-produced by ArabLit and The Arabist and is hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey.

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