World English rights to Khaled Khalifa’s In praise of hatred have been sold to Transworld, a company part of Random House Group Ltd. since 1999.
In praise of hatred was on the shortlist of the first edition of the Arab Man Booker prize awarded in 2008 in Abu Dhabi.

I was trying to buy a banned book in Damascus by one of Syria’s top literary figures, and to my surprise it seemed to be going rather well.

Italian rights to Khaled Khalifa’s In praise of hatred were sold to Bompiani, Italian publisher part of the RCS Media group.

Lumen, a literary inprint of Random House Mondadori acquired the Spanish rights to Khaled Khalifa’s In praise of Hatred.

We are happy to annonce that:
French rights to Khaled Khalifa’s ‘In praise of hatred’ have been sold to Sindbad, Actes Sud, Paris, France.
Dutch rights to the same title have been sold to De Geus, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Actes Sud is an independent French house, based in Arles. Sindbad is its inprint specialized in Arabic contemporary literature. For more on Actes Sud, click here.
De Geus is a literary Dutch house. It publishes, among many others, Assia Djebar, Nuruddin Farah, Laurent Gaudé, J.M.G. le Clézio, Amin Maalouf. For more details on the house, …

“Banning books is normal for us here, it’s funny, even a little absurd. It’s not like Europe ‚”Ooh, I’ve been censored”