Lit & Found: Samira Azzam’s ‘The Roc Flew Over Shahraban’
Slowly, we raised our heads as hellish cries echoed in our ears, and we looked up in awe and fear.
Read moreMaya Abu Al-Hayyat’s ‘You Can Be the Last Leaf,’ Tr. Fady Joudah, Makes Inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Longlist
The National Book Critics Circle today announced the twelve-book longlist for their inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
Read moreA Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam’s ‘Out of Time’
“When I asked when they sang this song, they said: ‘at weddings!’”
Read moreSamira Azzam’s ‘On the Road’
There goes the bell. I’ve been waiting for so long! I quickly pull my hand from the tub of water where the empty bottles are piled up, ready to be washed and refilled with beer, then loaded up and taken to the city’s bars and nightclubs. There, they’re poured straight into mouths whose thirst will never be quenched. They soon come back to me, empty, waiting to be washed.
Read moreAdania Shibli on Samira Azzam: ‘Out of Time’
“My little watch is the first to sense the change, going into and out of Palestine.”
Read moreSunday Submissions: Rusted Radishes ‘Labor and Idleness’
Anyone who has a relationship with Lebanon or the MENA region may submit in a variety of genres by December 31, 2022.
Read moreComing in December: Hussein Barghouthi’s Autobiographical ‘The Blue Light,’ Two Iraqi Novels, & More
This month: four new translations of Arabic novels from Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.
Read moreExtended Conversation: On Wishes, Translation, & Being ‘Deena Shubeik Lubeik’
“There’s a real novelty to seeing modern Egyptian life illustrated like this because it’s not as common as people think and most of us haven’t grown up with it, and I know that because I enjoy it too. It’s the joy of representation in its most literal form; visual representation for the sake of its own existence.”
Read moreThe Patriotic Sufi
“Faceless, I gaze. / Legless, I dance.”
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