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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Syracuse University Press Named Publisher of the Year

Syracuse, who publish the Middle East Literature in Translation series and the Arab American literature series, have been named Publisher of the Year by the Bloomsbury Review, according to Three Percent, who quotes Bloomsbury Review's Jeff Biggers: A
t a time with bookstores are overwhelmed by superficial cut-and-paste portraits of the Middle East that provide little insight into the cultures and experiences in the war-torn region, Syracuse University Press serves as a beacon of light for the publishing industry. These books deserve the widest distribution and attention possible in our country.


Congratulations to an excellent press, who have long been translating both fiction and non-fiction from Arabic-speaking countries, including titles such as Fugitive Light (Mohamed Berrada), My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca (Raja Alem), The Journals of Sarab Affan (Jabra Ibrahim Jabra), Blood Test (Abbas Beydoun), Granada: A Novel (Radwa Ashour), Disciples of Passion Huda Barakat), The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture ((Abdelfattah Kilito), and the classic Adonis collection A Time Between Ashes and Roses.

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