Lit & Found: Anny Gaul’s Medieval Mint Chicken
“Take a chicken and roast until done. When done, put wine vinegar, enough pounded caraway, mint, and pounded garlic on it, and bring to the boil two or three times. It comes out well.”
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Summer Reads: Basma Alnsour’s “The Time Our Friend Forgot His Phone”
“And so it was out of sheer laziness that he decided to go without his phone for the rest of the day. He assured himself it was safe, and that there was no way it could get stolen. In any case, he could use the landline or his dear wife’s mobile if there was an emergency, and he needed to get hold of family or friends.”
Summer Reads: ‘And We Still Have the Sea’
“yes, the sea changes colors / drinking the yellow of my doubt and distrust / turning as blue as my melody / my songs and ships set sail on its scattered waves”
Summer Reads: ‘The Crime of Translation’
“But in a broader sense, crime as transgression takes in a spate of ideas, images, and conceits from Arabic literature.”
Lit & Found: TMR Double Summer Issue
On July 2, The Markaz Review published their 2023 double summer issue featuring many brilliant writers, translators, and artists, including former and current ArabLit contributors.
Summer Reads: Rym Jalil’s ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’
“Every day I lie and say / I know this place. / My mother’s kitchen / brims with afflictions / I must pretend to befriend it / we all know it can have only one master / from its beginning to its end”
Summer Reads: ‘On Fiction’s Uneaten Meals’: A Talk with Donia Kamal
” Cooking is a central way in which the narrator feels; it reflects her state of mind and how she perceives the events and people around her. So it was more important for me to write about the process of making the food rather than about people eating it.”
Summer Reads: ‘The Song of the Banu Sasan’
This summer, we will run select pieces from summer issues of ArabLit Quarterly. This excerpt from a tenth-century poem by Abu Dulaf, translated by Brad Fox, ran in the summer 2020 CRIME issue of the magazine.
New Releases in June & July 2023: A Focus on Syria
As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please let us know at info@arablit.org.