Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Instructions The top of June marked the anniversary of the dying of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking Egyptian author who will not be significantly well-known, however whose work will nonetheless delight readers along with his sense of the absurd, satirical observations about energy, poverty and corruption, and sly humor. […]

Background photograph by Taiga / Adobe Inventory / Creator photograph courtesy of AUC Press Years in the past, I visited the Alhambra in Granada and was awestruck by the grand palace and fortress that was constructed through the historic Islamic interval in Spain. Standing on a plateau, the palace overlooks Albaicín, the quarter of the […]