To Exorcise the Fear of War: Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin with Sinan Antoon
Join Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance for a virtual event with Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and Sinan Antoon.
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Lit & Found: Poems by the Late Zakaria Mohammed
Palestinian poet Zakaria Mohammed passed away aged 73 on August 2, 2023. The winner of the 2020 Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Culture and Creativity, Mohammed published several novels and plays, […]
Friday Finds: A Discussion of Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s ‘Except for This Unseen Thread’ with Mona Kareem & Sinan Antoon
On May 27, Kareem joined poet and novelist Sinan Antoon — who has called Abdulqadir “a poet’s poet” — to discuss Except for This Unseen Thread.
Friday Finds: Adania Shibli, Haytham el-Wardany, and Sinan Antoon in ‘Specimen’
“Assuming that words’ eyes have also been gouged, this dossier asks: How can literature assist us in reclaiming the capacity to imagine a less monstrous form of togetherness today?”
Coming in August 2023: Poems from Iraq and Palestine, a Moroccan Novel &, Finally, Iman Mersal
As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please let us know at info@arablit.org.
Honoring the Memory of Muthaffar Al Nawwab
The Arab-American Educational Foundation invites you to a special event to honor the legacy of the Iraqi poet, Muthaffar Al Nawwab, who passed away on May 20, 2022.
Jonathan Wright: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic.
Works by Etel Adnan, Sinan Antoon, Khaled Khalifa Make 2020 BTBA Longlists
The Best Translated Book Awards today named its 2020 longlists for fiction and poetry.
The Flying Flesh of Amjad Nasser’s ‘Adam’s Kingdom’
“The ugliness of reality has surpassed the imagination of our ancient poets, and where modes of torture and killing machines have overshadowed the most creative minds of filmmakers, it is futile to invoke the ancient muses.”
