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Podcast: BULAQ | بŮŮاŮ
Episode: Is It a Beach Book?
Description: In our last episode before a summer hiatus, we discuss a graphic novel about the life and art of the stars of Arab music and cinema; Egyptian writer Radwa Ashourâs memoir of studying at university in the United States in the 1970s; and the Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouananiâs novel The Hospital, out in English (alongside a new poetry collection, The Shutters) after nearly falling into oblivion.  Show notesA record-breaking four of the 18 âPEN translatesâ prizes for 2018 are going to books translated from Arabic. They are: The Book of Cairo, edited by Raph Cormack, with various autho...