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, …

The French rights to Jabbour Douaihy’s ‘Ayn Warda’ are sold to Sindbad, Actes Sud, Paris.
The title should appear in the end of 2008.