Italian translator and blogger Elisa Ferrero writes that, at a recent appearance at an Italian literary festival, Egyptian novelist Muhammad Aladdin said that revolution “is similar to time,” as it can’t be directly observed, while its effects on people can be.
Gaza-based author Hedaya Shamun writes in the wake of the more than one hundred deaths in al-Shijaiyah. Translation by Laura Khoury.
Amr El-Zawawy has translated a poem, “حضارة الغرب”, by celebrated Iraqi poet Abdel-Wahhab Al-Bayyati: By Amr El-Zawawy The celebrated poet Abdel-Wahhab Al-Bayyati was born in Baghdad on Dec. 19, 1926 and died in […]
As translated Elliott Colla recently noted, Raba’i al-Madhoun’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel “The Lady from Tel Aviv” is perhaps the only novel by a Gazan author translated into English.
Ganzeer (the Egyptian artist Mohamed Fahmy) has been threatening to get to work on a big graphic novel for some time. Now it seems that he has.
The Book of Gaza (2014), ed. Atef Abu Saif, collects ten Gazan short stories by ten different writers in a range of styles and views on life in the Strip, with an emphasis on women’s narratives.
On August 7 at 7 p.m., London’s Mosaic Rooms will host the UK launch of Kuwaiti writer Mai Al-Nakib’s striking and acclaimed debut short-story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects. The stories […]
Gazan author Hedaya Shamun, in translation by Shaimaa Debees, writes her reflections on the thirteenth day of “Operation Protective Edge.”
On July 11, Marfa Public Radio aired an interview with Lannan Writer/Translator-in-Residence Kareem James Abu-Zeid, who has recently been working on translations of work by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, Lebanese novelist Rabee Jaber, and Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. He spoke particularly about the challenges and excitement of translating Darwish’s collected poems.
