Sunday Submissions: On the Margins of Shi‘r: Rethinking Histories of Poetic Modernism in the Twentieth-century Arab World
Middle Eastern Literatures has opened its call for submissions for its special issue on ‘Rethinking Histories of Poetic Modernism in the Twentieth-century Arab World’.Continue Reading
A Look at Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Bedouin Poetry, and ‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’
Translator Ibrahim Fawzy curates this special section on beloved and award-winning Egyptian novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, chronicler of Egypt’s dispossessed, and scribe of the poetry and culture of the Bedouin.Continue Reading
A Talk with Hamdi Abu Golayyel: On Bringing Bedouin Language & Culture Out of the Shadows
“I’m a writer without a cause; I don’t resist injustice or oppression for example, and I believe that it’s not the burden of the novel, but that the novel is supposed to delight and entertain. Sometimes, though, I feel responsible for the Bedouins, since if I hadn’t written about them—including myself—we would have remained in the shadows.”Continue Reading
A Playlist for Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s ‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’
Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy asked Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel for a playlist of Bedouin songs that readers can listen to as they devour The Men Who Swallowed the Sun.Continue Reading
An Excerpt from Faleeha Hassan’s ‘War And Me’
“From the events I recount in this memoir, you will understand that next to my name in the Unknown World or beside it at the moment I was born, the only comment inscribed must have been: ‘Faleeha Hassan will coexist with war for most of the years of her life.'”Continue Reading
Sudanese Writer Reem Gaafar Makes 2023 Island Prize Longlist
Organizers have announced the longlist for the 2023 Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa.Continue Reading
Rewriting National History from a Personal Perspective: Hiyem Cheurfa on Arab Women’s Life Writing
This March, Hiyem Cheurfa’s new book Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance appeared as part of Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature series. In it, Cheurfa takes us on a journey through a number of women’s memoirs, written in the context of twenty-first century uprisings. In this conversation, the author talks about the challenges and the difficulties of writing this book and how the texts she studied changed her life. Continue Reading
Sunday Submissions: University of Iowa Translators in Residence
The University of Iowa’s MFA in Literary Translation is hosting two Translators in Residence – applications are received on a rolling basis. Continue Reading
Lit & Found: ‘Sudanese Novels Through Time’
Over at Kotobli, they have posted a new list; this time, of Sudanese novels through time. The list was curated by Sudanese-American writer Razan Idris.Continue Reading
