Karim Alrawi is a novelist and playwright. His international awards include the John Whiting Award for British and Commonwealth Writers, the Samuel Beckett Award for the Performing Arts, the HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize, and the Wallace Stegner Award for the Arts. He was in Egypt during the Arab Spring assisting at the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and supporting the international media reporting on the uprising.
Karim Alrawi
Articles
A Time of Monsters: On Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated”
Karim Alrawi is stirred by the prison writings of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, collected in “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated,” translated by an anonymous collective.
Seemingly Irresolvable Traumas: Reading Rachel Rose’s The Octopus Has Three Hearts
Karim Alrawi looks at trauma and redemption in Rachel Rose’s recent short story collection "The Octopus Has Three Hearts."
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