Writing
I mentioned that I was looking into translation Yaasoob by Ehab Abdelmawla. I’ve translated a bit, but not nearly as much as I ought to have done. He has come out with two others since then: Mars One: No Return and Any Last Requests (thanks to an Egyptian friend for telling me the significance of…
• The reality of reading in the Arab world in numbers • It would take 2,800 Arabs to read as much as a European, and 3,200 Arabs to read as much as an Israeli.

Translation of an interview with Ehab Abdelmawla, author of El-Yaasob [The Dragonfly]