An Excerpt from Fadi Azzam’s ‘Huddud’s House’
“He fell silent; it was the silence of a man staring at the phantom of nothingness; a silence that spoke the full truth.”
Read moreFive to Celebrate International Prize for Arabic Fiction Winner Mohamed Alnaas
“Today, International Prize for Arabic Fiction chair of judges Shukri Mabkhout announced that Mohamed Alnaas was the prize’s 2022 winner for his debut novel, Bread for Uncle Milad’s Table. Here, five pieces — fiction, memoir, opinion, an interview, and a video — to celebrate Alnaas and his novel.”
Read more2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Goes to Debut Novel, ‘Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table’
This year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction went to debut novelist Mohamed Alnaas for his examination of masculinity, Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table.
Read moreSunday Submissions: PEN/Heim Translation Grants & 2022 ArabLit Story Prize
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund and ArabLit’s own Story Prize are now open for submissions.
Read moreLit & Found: A Poem by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
“Maya’s poems are made of such dailiness, the extreme violence of a colonizing force punctuating days filled with humor and compassion and small failures and sweeping loves.”
Read moreWriters Select: New and Inventive Voices in Sudanese Literature
If you were to choose 4-7 titles that would represent, to you, the most interesting books (perhaps experimental, challenging, or influential in some way) written by Sudanese writers in the last 10 years, what would they be? And (perhaps more importantly) why?
Read moreKhaled Nasrallah: Censorship is Not Exclusive to Kuwait; It’s a Global Issue
“But I didn’t decide to avoid setting The White Line of Night in Kuwait so that I could write freely and refer to anyone or anything without getting into trouble. Censorship is not exclusive to Kuwait; it is a global issue and it still exists in reality and practice even in the countries that theoretically nullified it.”
Read moreTODAY: The Englishing of Hisham Bustani’s ‘Monotonous Chaos’
Later today, ArabLit hosts author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
Read moreFrom Khaled Nasrallah’s IPAF-shortlisted ‘The White Line of Night’
“The censor would often read a sentence and claim that he had read it elsewhere.”
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