Classic Short Fiction: East Is East
“He stood bewildered at the crossroads, not knowing which way to take.” Classic short fiction about Arabs in early twentieth century Paris by Fouad Elshayeb.
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Why Bring May Ziadeh into English? Why Now?
We asked ourselves (and each other) why we wanted to bring May Ziadeh’s Musings of a Young Woman into English. Why May? And why now?
On Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation
Last month, The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing and Outside in World hosted a conversation between Sawad Hussain, Marcia Lynx Qualey, and Susanne Abou Ghaida about Arabic Young Adult literature and translation.
Standing Tall Like Trees: From Gaza to Canada
How do trees survive when fall strips them of their green leaves, and snow suffocates them, turning them into rigid white ghosts that frighten birds and leave no room to breathe?
‘A City with No Secrets’
The problem with this city has always been not a lack of love, but that intimacy, affection and love hang in the atmosphere and suffocate, just out of the population’s reach. Whenever I walk around its wide and ordered streets, I imagine myself colliding with tiny particles of human warmth, but never grasping them.
Two New Poems by Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib
“Alone / on a balcony with no air / I suffocate, grow intoxicated / Coffee cups multiply / stained with lipstick, overflowing with disappointment / taking me to a fresh bout of insomnia / and thoughts, buried before they could ever see the light.”
Rhyming Recipes
Why versify a recipe, let alone an entire recipe collection?
Mawred Announces Literary ‘Production Award’ Grants
In the literature category, the jury — made up of Hammour Ziade, Jokhka Alharthi, and Asmaa Azaizeh — selected six projects from Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Oman, Morocco, and Syria.
The Loneliness of the Spared
“I am a walking dissonance, a transmission without a terminal.”