Book Quote by Elliott Colla

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have…

— Elliott Colla

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some…

— Etgar Keret

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word…

— Elliott Colla

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful.…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations…

— Elliott Colla

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without…

— James Buchan

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to…

— Adam Zagajewski

Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once…

— Hassan Blasim

When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers…

— Hassan Blasim

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will…

— Naguib Mahfouz