Cultural Initiatives
The magazines, institutions, and prizes Nouri al-Jarrah founded and led.
Literary Contributions
Four decades of founding and editing Arabic literary magazines.
Al-Naqid
1988–1992Founding editor. A defining voice in Arabic literary criticism.
Al-Katiba
1993–1995The first monthly cultural review for female writers in the Arab world.
Al-Jadeed
2015–Contemporary Arabic letters and thought.
Cultural Projects
Cultural institutions founded and led by Nouri al-Jarrah.
The Centre for Arabic Geographical Literature — Irtiyad al-Afaq
When Nouri al-Jarrah speaks about the Centre for Arabic Geographical Literature, he tends to describe it not as an institution but as a rescue mission. The vast body of writing that Arab travellers pr…
The Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature
Every literary prize makes an argument about what deserves to be remembered. The Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature makes one of the most unusual arguments in the Arab literary world: that the ge…
The Syrian Writers Association
In the autumn of 2012, nine months into a war that was already scattering Syria's writers across the earth, a group of them did something that might seem, at first, out of proportion to the catastroph…