Don’t-miss Launch Event for FOLK Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
On Saturday, January 22, 2022, ArabLit Quarterly’s Winter 2021 guest editor Ali Al-Jamri will host “’Refuse To Be Erased’: Readings and Conversation from ALQ FOLK issue.”
Read more#TranslateThis: Badr Ahmad’s ‘Black Rains’
As Ahmad wrote in his interview with al-Riwayah: “I wanted to write, to scream, to protest, to put my imprint on the forehead of this world. I wanted my sons and daughters to know, a decade or two from now, that their father rejected this war, he rejected all this destruction and exposed the thieves who rode on the wave of the revolution.”
Read moreShort Fiction: ‘Orchestra,’ from Hisham Bustani’s ‘The Monotonous Chaos of Existence’
“She was seated at the black piano. The music had evaporated from her head, and only crooked melodies stumbled from her fingers.”
Read moreSunday Submissions: 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing
The 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is open for submissions by publishers until January.
Read moreLit & Found: David Larsen on Translation ‘As a Constraint-based Form of Writing’
“As part of a series on poetry and translation for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books blog, scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature David Larsen delves into the conjunction that joins translation with poetry, the and between them.”
Read moreSarah Enany Wins 2021 Banipal Translation Prize for ‘The Girl with Braided Hair’
“A unanimous choice for the excellence and readability
of both its original and translated versions.”
Poetry in Translation: Fadi Azzam’s ‘This Is Damascus, You Sons of Bitches’
“She has enough patience to wait for a climax with the force an earthquake, and enough shoes and slippers hanging in al-Hamidiyah market to whack fifty deserving dictators.”
Read morePoetry Translation Projects from Arabic, Kurdish Win 2022 NEA Fellowships
Translators working from Arabic and Kurdish were among the two dozen working on a wide range of literary projects selected for 2022 National Endowment for the Arts (US) Literary Translation Fellowships.
Read moreHow (and Why) to Subscribe to a Serialized ‘Kafka in Tangier’ Translation, Free
“As much as I adore Aaliya, I still harbor aspirations of being a necessary translator – or, more modestly and accurately, a translator who is read.”
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