Festivals Quote by 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 have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and]…

— Orson Welles

In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a…

— Tariq Ali

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same…

— Buchi Emecheta

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted…

— Hassan Blasim

In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a…

— S. S. Rajamouli

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 stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always there, which…

— Elliott Colla

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

The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only…

— Hassan Blasim

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need…

— Jamal Khashoggi

At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.' I get…

— Eran Kolirin