Via I'm pointed to Matovu Abdallah Twaha's Award cycle: Ipaf draws in writers while readers simply lap up winners in The Gulf Today, an interesting look at the impact the International Prize for Arabic Fiction has had.
Among the interesting suggestions:
Among the interesting suggestions:
More novels should come about, as opposed to magazines and journals. That's how we can rewrite our history.(I'm not sure about the whole 'rewriting history' thing, in any form, but I'm always for more novel-production.)