“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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“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.”
Read moreThis 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 more“He founded his publishing house in London in 1986, and moved it to Beirut in the early 1990s.”
Read moreToday is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
Read more“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
Read moreThis poem first appeared in the British magazine The Wolf. It appears here — to celebrate the life and writing of Fadwa Suleiman — with permission.
Read moreTwenty-one translated stories from twelve countries — available free online — for your midsummer, 2019.
Read moreAs far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.
Read moreWe 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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