Without warning, Egyptian officials shutter Cairo center for torture victims
After a year of harassment by the Egyptian government, Cairo’s Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was shut down by authorities yesterday. The closure—executed by fifteen plainclothes… Read more »
I beg your pardon… Evil Amazon now want to stop the Brits from queuing
In their latest bid to takeover the world, Amazon has apparently started searching for prime locations in central London to launch their first Amazon Go store in the UK. Last December… Read more »
Checking in on our early-summer authors
Hail the mighty authors of Melville House! For the first half of the summer, while you were stalking Butterfree between the stacks, chilling with a beach read, or standing over the… Read more »
A Case of State Insanity: Basma Abdel Aziz reports on the state of today’s Egypt
When Egyptians took to the streets in mid-2013, gathering in their greatest numbers since the Arab Spring to demonstrate against the Muslim Brotherhood regime, they did so under the same… Read more »
The New York Times writes about Basma Abdel Aziz “finding refuge in the dystopian novel”
A New York Times cover story by Alexandra Alter this weekend began: Basma Abdel Aziz was walking in downtown Cairo one morning when she saw a long line of people standing… Read more »
Anatomy of a (Translated) Page: Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue
Much of a translator’s work boils down to being a mediator. In the larger sense, we’re mediators between languages, of course. But translating an entire novel also means mediating between… Read more »
Newly published: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
Last week, Melville House published The Queue, the English-language debut of Egypt’s Basma Abdel Aziz. It promptly received a great deal of attention, and we thought you might want something to… Read more »