Bookjacked: Why We Can't Have Arabic Books in America

When Ali Eteraz decided to give a surprise gift of the Arabic version of Abdo Khal’s novel, Tarmi Bi-sharrar (Throwing Sparks) (not the translation) to a writer friend in New York, she embarked on an impossible journey, one tells us something about the nature of distribution of literature in the world, where Western literature can easily traverse East, but the reverse seems impossible.
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