"To be considered for a 2020-2021 residency, your application (including separate letter of recommendation) must be received electronically by the end of the day, June 30, 2020."
Bulaq 46: ‘A Woman Shaped by Fear’
In "A Woman Shaped by Fear," we talk about the Wannous’ haunting novel, in lucid, vibrant translation by Jaquette.
Friday Finds: Life Writing by Women in Arabic
Words Without Borders recently published a special section co-edited by Sawad Hussain and Nariman Youssef, "Beyond Representation: Life Writing by Women in Arabic."
New Online Translated Fiction Book Club: Starts Today
Five small presses are kicking off a shared, Zoom-centered, international book club today.
Announcing the Next Two ‘ArabLit Quarterly’ Themes: CRIME and CATS
Those are two separate themes; we are not requesting contributions about criminal or crime-fighting cats; although, naturally, we're open to anything that's evocative, soul-cracking, un-put-downable, fun.
Release Party for First 2020 Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: The Road
If you cannot go to the road, this issue of ArabLit Quarterly (THE ROAD) will come to you.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Harvard Review’ Seeks Translations
The deadline for submissions is April 8, 2020.
World Poetry Day: 21 Poems by Arab Women (in Translation)
To mark the day, we have a list of 21 poems by Arab women, translated to English, starting with the sixth century and ending with work published in 2020.
Friday Finds: Jan Dost’s ‘A Pleasant Countenance’
"I don’t know how many hours I’d spent in solitary confinement. I was alone with four cold silent walls. I couldn’t hear anyone’s voice in that gloomy cell, and I don’t think anyone could hear me."
UPDATE: Novelist Ahdaf Soueif Charged with Illegal Protest and Spreading False News
"Award-winning writer, @PalFest founder, all-around cultural exemplar Ahdaf Soueif charged with illegal protest and spreading false news about negligence within prisons regarding #COVID19, according to lawyers. Prosecutors still to question Mona, Leila, and Rabab."
Omid Tofighian on Debordering and Literary Translation
Omid Tofighian and ArabLit's M Lynx Qualey talk about his translation of Behouz Boochani's multi-award winning book "No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison," the process of debordering, and ways we can center writers and artists impacted by border violence.
How Mahmoud Darwish Inspired a Poetry Movement in Assam, India
The off-London Book Fair podcast explores the Miyah poetry movement that was sparked in April 2016 when poet Hafiz Ahmed composed "Write Down I Am a Miyah," an echo of Mahmoud Darwish’s "ID Card," and shared it on social media.
