Sunday Submissions: ‘The Arkansas International,’ a Paying Market for Translations
“For issue four, contributors will be paid $20 a printed page (capped at $250) and in copies of the journal.”
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More of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘Palestinian Comedy’ Makes It Into English: ‘Gaza Weddings’
“Gaza Weddings,” first published in Arabic in 2004, is part of Nasrallah’s Palestinian Comedy project, an eight-novel series in the spirit of Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine.
Friday Finds: An Excerpt from Dunya Mikhail’s Forthcoming ‘The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq’
“The narrow pass, surrounded by three mountains, gradually opened wider, revealing all that it had, like the generosity of its people, but sometimes it also closed in on itself, like the Yazidi religion.”
Poetry Translation Centre: Work on Poetry from Syria, Egypt and Iraq with Alice Guthrie
The work being translated will be by Ameer Alhussein, Basma Abdel Aziz, and Kadhem Khanjar.
Country by Country: Where the International Prize for Arabic Fiction Submissions Came From
“Only one book by a Yemeni author was submitted this year, and none of the submitted titles were written by authors from Bahrain, Djibouti, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Qatar, or the UAE.”
‘Serenity of the Moon’: A New Short Story by Iraqi Writer Jalal Hasan
But as soon as he mentioned what he’d done, they confronted him with their frightening eyes and silencing voices: “God is not a person, and does not resemble people.”
Merry Christmas: Poetry from Mido Zoheir, for ‘Lekhfa’
“time is broad
hatching its eggs
greetings, welcome
those of ill-health”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Copper Nickel Looking for Translation Folios in Poetry and Prose
“Note that if your work is accepted we will request an 800-1200 word contextualizing translator’s introduction.”
Huzama Habayeb on the Painful Process of Writing and the Joy of Reading
Yet it was in Kanafani’s Men in the Sun, Habayeb says, that she found what it meant to be a Palestinian. “I cried because of this discovery.”