Texts After the Screaming
Nour Balousha wrote these two poems “after I stopped screaming, not because it ended, but because I grew too exhausted to keep screaming.”
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Samar Yazbek, Karim Kattan on National Book Award Longlist
Yesterday, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Classic Short Fiction from Tunisia: ‘Hajj Zayan’
Mostafa Khraïef (1910-1967) was a prominent Tunisian poet, writer, and journalist.
University of Edinburgh Welcomes Raja Shehadeh Archive
Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine has arrived for safekeeping at two universities in the United Kingdom
Arabic Literature for Young Readers: 10 Publishers to Know
As a way of marking #WorldKidLitMonth, we are refreshing this profile of 10 publishers that have a focus on children’s literature in Arabic.
On Music, Memory, and Damascus
“Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space.”
On Shaping ‘The Book of Damascus’
The Book of Damascus, ed. Zaher Omareen, is a new anthology in their “Reading the City” series. Here, editor Zaher Omareen talks with Fifi Bat-hef about selecting ten stories to represent a city as complex and storied as Damascus.
Ghayath Almadhoun Makes 2026 National Translation Awards Longlist
Only one title translated from Arabic was on the longlists for the 2026 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, announced yesterday: I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by Action Books.
Yasmine Zohdi Makes Caine Prize Shortlist
Egyptian author-translator Yasmine Zohdi is one of five writers shortlisted for this year’s Caine Prize, which celebrates short stories by African authors.