Katharine Halls

Jan 7, 2025 | arablit.org | Katharine Halls

News Banipal Prize for ARabic Literary Translation 2024, Katharine Halls JANUARY 8, 2025 — Organizers today announced that the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Katharine Halls for her “masterclass” of a translation of Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence. In their statement, the judges write that, “Halls not only gives a masterclass on the lexical and phrasal level; she also takes a scalpel to the structure of the original Arabic to produce a text...

Feb 19, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Susan Ito |David Mas Masumoto |Ahmed Naji |Katharine Halls

Thanks for joining us. We love featuring the National Book Critics Circle shortlists; they always surface excellent books we might otherwise have missed. What were you looking for when you were drawing up the 2024 NBCC shortlist of the best recent memoirs? All the books that made the shortlist were works that the committee members felt fundamentally changed how we viewed the world, whether an aspect of history or how to view the present.

Jan 24, 2024 | arablit.org | Katharine Halls |M. Lynx Qualey

News Ahmed Naji, Katharine Halls, National Book Critics Circle, Rotten Evidence JANUARY 25, 2024 — Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are granted in eight categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, translation, and a John Leonard Prize. No Arabic works were finalists in the “translation” category, but translated works also appeard in both the fiction and...

Oct 31, 2023 | arablit.org | Katharine Halls |M. Lynx Qualey

Interviews Ahmed Naji, Katharine Halls, Rotten Evidence By Tugrul MendeThis month, Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison was published in Katharine Halls’ English translation. The book chronicles Naji’s two years in prison, which began in February 2016.

Oct 17, 2023 | greenapplebooks.com | Ahmed Naji |Katharine Halls |Daniel Gumbiner

This event will take place at our 9th Ave location in the Inner SunsetJoin us on Thursday, October 19 at 7pm PT when Ahmed Naji celebrates the release of his book, Rotten Evidence, with Daniel Gumbiner at 9th Ave!Masks Encouraged for In-Person AttendanceOr watch online at the link belowhttps://youtube.com/live/Yeof_h19rOg?feature=sharePraise for Ahmed Naji“Some writers, in the face of state oppression, will write like Solzhenitsyn.