The Spring issue starts our 20th year of publication with a wide range of works, including the title feature on Arab Literary Awards in which publishers, critics, authors, and literary journalists write about the impact of these awards on encouraging reading, on creative writing and on the literary scene.
Also excerpts from the six shortlisted novels of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, short stories from Naguib Mahfouz, Muhammad Khudayyir and Shahla Ujayli, excerpts from novels by Elias Farkouh and Alaa Khaled – also an interview with the latter, an essay on and more artworks by cover artist Yahya al-Sheikh, and Literary Influences essay by Iraqi author Mahmoud Saeed.