At Qantara.de Susanne Schanda has an Egyptian Literature-in(-mainly-German)-translation)-overview, New Departures, New Visions.
Too much space, yet again, for The Yacoubian Building -- though nice to hear Taxi did so well -- but what I was most amused by was the transliteration failure in translating this written-in-German article into English: they figured out the English for 'Der Jakubijân-Bau' -- but didn't realize the Nobel laureate isn't called Nagib Machfus in English ?
Too much space, yet again, for The Yacoubian Building -- though nice to hear Taxi did so well -- but what I was most amused by was the transliteration failure in translating this written-in-German article into English: they figured out the English for 'Der Jakubijân-Bau' -- but didn't realize the Nobel laureate isn't called Nagib Machfus in English ?