Publishing from the Fault Line
Publisher and managing director of Saqi Books, Lynn Gaspard, on what it means to publish as your world faces destruction.
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In Conversation: Songs as Memory, as Solidarity, as Resistance
Iman Humaydan, Michelle Hartman, and Emma Hardy discuss the new translation of Iman’s book “Songs for Darkness” and songs as a tool for the transmission of memory, of solidarity, and as a method of resistance.
From Iman Humaydan’s ‘Songs for Darkness’
“She closed her olive-green eyes and sang songs she’d learned from the women in her family.”
Part Six, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’
This is the sixth and final installment of Emile Habiby’s The Six-Day Sextet, which has been made available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman.
Online Summer Arabic Translation Workshop Open for Applications
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) Arabic Summer Workshop is now open for applications.
Bassma Sheikho’s ‘Scream’
“No electricity tonight. / Boredom is about to kill me.”
Translating Noir: On ‘The End of Sahara’
In this conversation with ArabLit’s Tugrul Mende, translator Alex Elinson talks about how literary prizes affect the translation landscape, the draw of detective novels, and how he hones voice in a novel with many starring characters.
Samar Yazbek’s ‘The Silent Night-Dwellers of Damascus’
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam.
Part Five, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’
On Mondays this winter, we are publishing installments of Emile Habiby’s The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman.