In the Details: Masks, Memory, and Narrative Defiance
“A Mask the Color of the Sky” practices what it clearly laid out: using literature to engage obsessively with colonial details, to challenge them, and to insist on a Palestinian narrative.
2 Arabic Titles on EBRD Literature Prize’s 2026 Shortlist
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) today announced the 10-book shortlist for its 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. The unusual lit prize honors books from nine of the countries in which the Bank operates.
Forthcoming April 2026
This month, a novel set in the Egyptian countryside and two big literary anthologies with Arabic work in English translation.
A Look Back at ArabLit: March 2026
A look back at March 2026 in Arabic literature and translation.
On the Field of Arabic Studies
Translator-scholar Jonas Elbousty talks with Roger Allen about his journey in the field of Arabic Studies.
New Poetry in Translation: ‘Who Am I?’
“Who am I? / I am not myself.”
Translation and Solidarity in Times of Imperial Mass Violence
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Elliott Colla look into two dimensions of translation, which Colla calls the solidaristic and the hegemonic, and the particular role translation has played in the US military.
New Poetry: Maha Al Aswad’s ‘Death in Six Images’
“They walk beneath the sky. As their arms extend. As they grow new arms. As they carry their children.’
From Saïd Khatibi’s ‘I Resist the River’s Course’
Saïd Khatibi’s I Resist the River’s Course — on the shortlist for the 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), with a winner set to be announced online April 9 — chronicles half a century of Algerian history, from the Second World War to the early 1990s.