New Initiative Taps Arab Book Market: A Q&A with Kalima Chief Executive Karim Nagy

Twenty-six U.S. titles are included in Kalima’s first batch of 100 classic and contemporary titles that it plans to translate in the next year, from William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” to Alan Greenspan’s recent best seller, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.”

“Kalima is an initiative set up by Arabs, for Arabs, and aims to celebrate the Arabic language by widening its usage,” says Karim Nagy, Kalima’s chief executive.