“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”
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Announcing the Shortlist for 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
This year’s shortlisted stories — selected blindly, as in past years — were chosen by Hilal Chouman, Donia Kamal, and 2019 ArabLit Story Prize winning translator Sawad Hussain.
Read morePublisher and Author Riyad al-Rayyis Dies at 83
“He founded his publishing house in London in 1986, and moved it to Beirut in the early 1990s.”
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Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
Read moreRelease Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
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Remembering Fadwa Suleiman: ‘Two Tears Flooding Paris’
This poem first appeared in the British magazine The Wolf. It appears here — to celebrate the life and writing of Fadwa Suleiman — with permission.
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Friday Finds: 21 Short Stories for 2019’s Longest Day
Twenty-one translated stories from twelve countries — available free online — for your midsummer, 2019.
Read more9 Short Stories by Syrian Women, in Translation
As far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.
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12 Reads: Looking for the Great Arabic Cat Story
We are in the process of hunting down Arabic cat stories, cat tales, cat anecdotes, cat poetry, The Great Cairo Cat Novel, and other feline literary productions in Arabic.
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