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Time to do the show notes!
Topics discussed in Episode 15:
>May Hawas's "How Not to Write on Cosmopolitan Alexandria" & Alexandrian lit
>Brothers of the Gun by @marwanhishampen/@mollycrabapple (& its relationship to @dunyamikhail's BEEKEEPER
>+1 hate-read, +1 amazing find
Thank you @ganzeer for the lovely plug for @bulaqbooks in Restricted Frequency! "Superb and informative, even if Arabic literature isn't your jam." (Sign up for @ganzeer's Restricted Frequency: https://t.co/UGHsaJOORo)
& the Ep 9 in question: https://t.co/JM7MSZkMPN
EPISODE 2 moves from texts in Beirut to Saudi Arabia (w/readings of 6th and 18th century poetries) to a new release and on to Morocco & mis/reading women.
W a special bow to award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid & a peek at his forthcoming translation of the Mu'allaqat.