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2012-10-07

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Nada Faris on Why She Stopped Avoiding Translation & Bringing Bothayna Al-Essa’s ‘Lost in Mecca’ into English
” I often avoided translation events because of the ways in which propaganda often slipped into discussions. Even the most liberal and well-meaning teachers were guilty of claiming that the Arabic language is more beautiful and more complex than all other languages and that Arabic poetry is incomparable and thus untranslatable.”
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Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend
The twelve authors from nine countries who recommended books for our list of 2023 summer reads had different ideas about what you need in a summer book.
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Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’
“It doesn’t feel like an Arabic novel any more to me, now that it’s translated,” Hosam Aboul-ela said. “it feels like a really unique novel of Marxist international revolution.”
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From Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s ‘A Friend’s Kitchen’
Next month, Poetry Translation Centre is releasing a collection of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, A Friend’s Kitchen, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook. To mark the occasion, they have shared an excerpt from the introduction and two poems from the collection.
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Poetry

New and featured poems.

Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

Podcast

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.

Upcoming Events

Jun 13

7:00 pm

Book Discussion: ‘Suleiman’s Ring’ with Author Sherif Meleka

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