Forthcoming November 2026: Dalia Taha and Sonallah Ibrahim
Translated from Arabic
Enter World, by Dalia Taha, translated by Sara Elkamel (November 3 2026, Graywolf Press)
From the publisher:
Writing from Ramallah, Dalia Taha captures her proximity to the Gaza genocide—the losses unspeakable and the destruction near total. In Enter World, poetry emerges as an answer to the violences of war, as a means to encounter and foster resilience. Taha’s lines bear witness to the atrocities in Palestine, but also reflect lyrically on beauty, justice, and humanity.
In Sara Elkamel’s spare and emotionally direct translation, each poem’s title begins with “enter,” an invitation to fill an empty stage, for a landscape to form. The poet’s world materializes: olive trees, hills, inscribed walls in prison cells. These images accrue into an intimate and mythic declaration of resistance through art, of beauty found amid terror. A world is captured, made permanent on the page, even as it is obliterated.
Star of August, by Sonallah Ibrahim, translated by Anne Willborn (November 2026, Seagull Books)
From the publisher:
A piercing portrait of the Egyptian nation in upheaval in the 1960s—and a powerful critique of progress made at a human cost.
In the summer of 1965, a journalist newly released from prison finds himself at the sprawling site of the Aswan High Dam, the flagship project of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s modern Egypt. Amid oppressive heat, unreliable transport, a mysterious epidemic, and the oppressive gaze of state surveillance, he confronts a dramatic transformation underway: villages erased, communities displaced, and a rich past disappearing beneath the waters of a new lake. As the journalist journeys south along the Nile, his observations illuminate a key moment in Cold War politics and a society wrestling with the promises and perils of progress.
Originally published in Arabic in 1974, Star of August is a masterwork by Sonallah Ibrahim—a writer who lived through these upheavals firsthand—and a timeless exploration of ideology, power, and the price of change.
Newly available for pre-order: Take My Sorrow and Sew Me a Heart Its Size: A Gaza Folio (Mizna)
Translated from French
I’ll Look Myself in the Eyes, by Rim Battal, translated by Liza Tripp (November 10, 2026 Galiot Press)
From the publisher:
In this autobiographical coming of age novel, 17-year-old Rim is caught smoking out her window in her home in Marrakesh, Morocco. This minor transgression unleashes the fury of her mother who flies into a rage and demands that Rim complete a gynecological test certifying her virginity. So begins a nuanced journey into the tangled web of a patriarchal society in which various generations of women seem to complicitly preserve the status quo. Ultimately, it is Rim who breaks the cycle of dysfunction, rebels against tradition, confronts betrayal from the women closest to her, and dares to be her true self.
Book Events
Book Launch: Abdelrahman ElGendy in conversation with Hazem Jamjoum, London (November 2 2026)
Sharjah International Book Fair, Sharjah (November 4–15 2026)
Colloquy 23: Translating Palestine Now, with Sinan Antoon, Omar Berrada, and Huda J. Fakhreddine, New York (November 4 2026)
Eden at Dawn: Karim Kattan with Tareq Baconi London (November 4 2026)
Tareq Baconi and Rashid Khalidi on What Now, New York, McNally Jackson Books (November 13 2026)
Noura Erakat and John Reynolds present Confronting Zionism, with Rafeef Ziadah, London, The Light (November 17 2026)
Dubai International Library & Publishing Summit 2026, Dubai (November 16-17 2026)
24-Hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine, YouTube/worldwide (November 28-29 2026)
Read Palestine Week, worldwide (November 29 – December 5 2026)