Jenna Krajeski
Culture Editor
Jenna Krajeski is a writer and editor living in Cairo. Her reviews and reporting have been published in The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Tar Magazine, and the Poetry Foundation. Prior to Al-Masry Al-Youm, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where she co-founded the books blog, The Book Bench.
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Last Saturday in a lush garden just across el-Mansouriya road from the pyramids, a large crowd gathered to celebrate the release of The Arabian Horse of Egypt, a debut book featuring photographs by breeder Nasr Marei “celebrating the history and...
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Harold Bloom reviews this new account of what he calls the “long squalor of Jew-hatred in a supposedly enlightened, humane, liberal...
On 1 May at 7:30 PM, novelists, poets, and scholars gathered together at the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem for the 2010 opening of Palestine Festival of Literature.
The five-day event honored the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammed Ali. For...
Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush (Scribner, 2010)
Close to a year and a half since her husband finished two terms as President of the United States, and seventeen years since her father-in-law was voted out of office, former First Lady Laura Bush...
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes by Victoria Clark (Yale, 2010)
Largely ignored, Yemen was prominent for a brief time in world headlines when it was said to have been the country of origin for the explosives that a young Nigerian man...
A look at this week’s books of interest, reviewed around the world:
Oprah by Kitty Kelley (Crown Publishers, 2010).
After penning unauthorized accounts of the lives of everyone from Nancy Reagan to the British royals, writer Kitty Kelley is as...
In August of 2008, I was assigned to cover a midday book release party at a chain bookstore in Manhattan. It was rumored to be a big event, but I was skeptical. I had not heard of the book, and my glancing impression was that the thick volume with...
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