Must-read Classics by Arab Women Writers: Short Stories by Samira Azzam
“…one of the first and pre-eminent Palestinian literary voices in the wake of the Nakba of 1948.”
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Four Tunisian Women Writers You Should Know
They named me without asking my permission.
They bequeathed me their bodies’ curses,
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Malika Moustadraf’s ‘Just Different’
How lucky they are! They do it in public. They’re shameless—as the saying goes, “Not only God sees them but his servants do too.” They don’t have to worry about a police patrol, or about what people will say.
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An Excerpt from Taghreed al-Najjar’s YA Novel, ‘Sitt al-Kul’
“The horizon stretched endlessly in front of her. Yusra had forgotten the world was so huge. She left the shore farther and farther behind, and thanked God the sea was calm that day. Far off in the distance, far away, she saw Israeli naval patrol ships looming menacingly on the horizon. They were poised like sea monsters, ready to snatch up the fishing boats. She turned away and gazed out even farther, imagining far-off countries she wished she could visit.”
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Sunday Submissions: The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
“Note that you must be a PEN member to nominate a translator for the prize.”
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Saturday Summer Re-Runs: Alexandra Chreiteh on Writing About Menstruation in Modern Standard Arabic
“And remember: talking about periods in fus7a is not insulting, because periods are not insulting!”
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Friday Finds: A Conversation with Libyan Novelist Najwa Benshatwan
“But my work came to the scrutiny of the Libyan authorities who tried to lure me to write about the regime and its ideology which I refused to do.”
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Rabee Jaber’s ‘Confessions’ a PEN Center USA Translation Award 2017 Finalist
“It is Jaber’s Confessions, which is in sensuous, tactile translation by Abu-Zeid.”
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Must-read Classics By Women: 6 by Radwa Ashour
“Forthcoming in translation is Ashour’s The Journey, translated by Michelle Hartman and set to be released by Interlink Books.”
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Rasha Abbas, the ‘King of Cups,’ and How Literature Lags Behind Music
“Sorry, I don’t know what NGO means.”
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Leri Price’s Translation of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘No Knives’ Makes 2017 NTA Shortlist
“‘No Knives’ advances to the NTA’s five-book shortlist along with titles translated from the Spanish, German, French, and Swedish.”
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An Translated Excerpt from Rania Mamoun’s PEN-support-winning ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
“Then another dog tossed me a piece of bread, half-moldy, and another a piece of raw meat, and another a chicken leg, and another, and another, things I couldn’t make out.”
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Must-read Classics By Women: 6 by Radwa Ashour
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From ‘One Room is Not Enough’: New Emirati Fiction
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Memories of an Iraqi Translator: A Russian Photojournalist in Iraq
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Must-read Classics by Arab Women Writers: Short Stories by Samira Azzam
August 17, 2017
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Friday Finds: An Interview with Amer Hlehel and Amir Nizar Zuabi about ‘Taha’
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Friday Finds: A Conversation with Jehan Bseiso and Filmpoem ‘No Search, No Rescue’
August 4, 2017
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Friday Finds: Iman Mersal on Saniya Salih
July 28, 2017
Syria ›
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Rasha Abbas, the ‘King of Cups,’ and How Literature Lags Behind Music
August 9, 2017
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Syrian Novelist Haitham Hussein on Writing Kurdish Stories into Arabic Literature
July 25, 2017
