Kareem James Abu-Zeid on Why It’s Important To Get the ‘I’ Out of the Way When Translating
“I’ve found that I translate best when the “I” gets out of the way and simply allows the process to happen through me—this is particularly true of poetry.”
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On #BannedBooksWeek, Why Edward William Lane’s Arabic Lexicon Currently on ‘Disapproved’ List
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Rabih Alameddine’s ‘Angel of History’: Corny and Glorious
“You’re welcome, oppressed women everywhere.”
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Sunday Submissions: ‘Delos,’ a Journal of Translation and World Literature
“As previously announced, Delos is not a Eurocentric publication.”
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Hassan Blasim on Shortlist for New Swedish ‘Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns’ Prize for Translations
“For Anglophone fans, Blasim will be at the Ilkley Literature Festival on October 14 at 7:30 p.m. to talk about the forthcoming collection he’s edited, ‘Iraq + 100’.”
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Queerness in Khaled Khalifa’s ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’
“There is no shortage of varieties of shame: of body, of one’s sexuality or lack of sexuality, of modest or immodest dress, of impoverished dress, of ugliness, of age, of illness, of disability, of vanity, of religion, of doubting one’s religion, of being complicit with the regime, of Syrianness, of having no ‘important’ family roots, of people who talk incessantly about their roots.”
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9 Great Arab Cult Classics
A crowdsourced list of cult classics.
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In Books: Jewish Exodus from Iraq Revisited
“A guiding thread came unexpectedly from my mother, who turned out to have had a Jewish childhood friend named Evelyn.”
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First Kurdish Novel Published in English? ‘It Is Unfortunate That We Still Talk About This’
“That’s when Ali got a surprising $25,000 advance for his ‘Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination,’ which Abdulrahman has now translated into English as ‘I Stared at the Night of the City.'”
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Iraqi Poet Dunya Mikhail on Censorship in the US, Censorship in Iraq
“Nobody knows where the red line is any more.”
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Supporting Indonesian Initiative, ‘Banned Literature in Translation’
“InterSastra is raising money to put together a series from banned writers around the world, translated into three languages: Indonesian, English, and Norwegian.”
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34 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
“Most of the literary representations of the massacres in two Palestinian refugee camps don’t aim to hold a mirror to the three days of horror, which took place in 1982, between September 16 and 18.”
Featured Categories
Egypt ›
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On Imprisoned Novelist Ahmed Naji’s 31st Birthday
September 15, 2016
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Support Omar Hazek as Nottingham Festival of Literature’s Virtual Writer in Residence
September 13, 2016
International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ›
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Yesterday Was Pub Day for Raja Alem’s ‘The Dove’s Necklace’: Read an Excerpt
May 4, 2016
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Rabai al-Madhoun’s ‘Destinies’ Wins 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
April 26, 2016
Iraq ›
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Hassan Blasim on Shortlist for New Swedish ‘Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns’ Prize for Translations
September 24, 2016
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In Books: Jewish Exodus from Iraq Revisited
September 21, 2016
Palestine ›
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34 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
September 17, 2016
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‘A Poet Behind Bars’: A New Poem from Dareen Tatour
September 1, 2016
poetry ›
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Iraqi Poet Dunya Mikhail on Censorship in the US, Censorship in Iraq
September 19, 2016
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Poem from Syria Becomes Part of Haunting Composition ‘Songish’
August 29, 2016
Syria ›
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Ghayath al-Madhoun, Poetring the World
August 19, 2016
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What’s So Scary About ‘Syria Speaks,’ Collection That Got Faizah Shaheen Questioned Under Terrorism Act?
August 4, 2016
