A list of twenty-six notable translations from Arabic forthcoming in 2019:
Novels
Death is Hard Work,Khaled al-Khalifa, tr. Leri Price, FSG (February 2019)
All That I Want to Forget, Bothayna al-Essa, tr. Michelle Henjum (March 2019)
The Book of Disappearance, Ibtisam Azem, tr. Sinan Antoon (May 2019)
Book of Collateral Damage (al-Fihrist), Sinan Antoon, tr. Jonathan Wright, Yale University Press (May 2019)
Guard of the Dead, by George Yaraq, tr. Raph Cohen, Hoopoe (May 2019)
Clouds over Alexandria, by Ibrahim Abdelmeguid, tr. Kay Heikkinen, Hoopoe (May 2019)
Ice, Sonallah Ibrahim, tr. Margaret Litvin, Seagull, (June 2019).
The Frightened Ones, Dima Wannous, tr. Elisabeth Jacquette. Harvill Secker (July 2019)
God 99, Hassan Blasim, tr. Jonathan Wright. Comma Press (October 2019)
Daughter of the Tigris, Muhsin al-Ramli, tr. Luke Leafgren. Quercus (November 2019)
The Old Woman and the River (Al Sabiliat), by Ismail Fahd Ismail, tr. Sophia Vasalou, Interlink (Fall 2019)
Whisper of Stars, Naguib Mahfouz, tr. Roger Allen, Saqi Books (Fall 2019).
Velvet, by Huzama Habayeb, tr. Kay Heikkinen (Fall 2019)
Mama Hessa’s Mice, by Saud Alsanoussi, tr. Sawad Hussain, AmazonCrossing (Fall 2019)
Theatre texts
Sentence to Hope: a Sa’dallah Wannous Reader, ed. Robert Myers, Yale University Press (March 2019)
Poetry
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, Adonis, tr.
Short story collections
Jokes for the Gunmen, by Mazen Maarouf, tr. Jonathan Wright, Granta Books (Jan 2019)
The Sea Cloak, by Nayrouz Qarmout, trans. Perween Richards, Comma Press (Feb 2019)
Book of Cairo, ed. Raph Cormack, Comma Press, (March 2019)
Thirteen Months of Sunrise, by Rania Mamoun, tr. Elisabeth Jacquette, Comma Press (March 2019)
Palestine + 100, ed. Basma Ghalayini, with stories by: Talal Abu Shawish, Awad Saud Awad, Liana Badr, Ramzy Baroud, Selma Dabbagh, Samir El-Youssef, Anwar Hamed, Mazen Maarouf, Ahmed Masoud, Nayrouz Qarmout, and Rawan Yaghi. Comma Press (May 2019).
Children’s: YA
Trees for Absentees, by Ahlam Bsharat, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and Sue Copeland, Neem Tree Press. (Fall 2019).
Children’s: Middle Grade
Ghady and Rawan, co-authored by Fatima Sharafeddine and Samar Mahfouz Barraj, co-translated by M Lynx Qualey and Sawad Hussain, University of Texas Press (August 2019).
Children’s: Picture books
Nour Escapes from Her Story, by Gulnar Hajo, tr. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Darf Books, 2019
The Tale of the Dot, by Gulnar Hajo, tr. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Darf Books, 2019
Classics
Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity, edited and translated by Julia Bray By al-Muhassin ibn ‘Ali al-Tanukhi (May 2019)
Bonus
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, ed. Zahra Hankir, Penguin (August 2019).
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