Author Archives
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Imprisoned Palestinian Poet Ashraf Fayadh Wins PEN Canada One Humanity Award
“This award reminds Fayadh, his family, his supporters, and most importantly, his jailers, that his colleagues will continue advocate for his right to freedom of expression until he is released.”
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Charif Majdalani Wins 2017 ‘Khayrallah Prize’ for Work Capturing Experiences of Lebanese Immigrants
Previous winners of the Khayrallah Prize include Lebanese-Australian playwright David Joseph and Lebanese-American author Joseph Geha.
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‘Book of Sleep’: Intensive Reflections from Haytham El-Wardany
“El-Wardany refuses those depictions of sleeping as a passive act. Also, interestingly, he observes the moment of getting to sleep and builds his ideas on it, away from the usual talk about the dreams.”
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An Excerpt from ‘The Effacement,’ Shortlisted for the 2017 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
The novel, according to The Nation, was “a sensation of the 2016 Algiers International Book Fair,” and it also won the Prix de l’Association France-Algérie earlier this year.
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Sunday Submissions: CSU Poetry Center Looking for Poetry in Translation
“Full manuscripts are welcome.”
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The Great Arabic Boxing Novel: Ma’n Abu Taleb’s ‘All the Battles’
“Boxing, perhaps more than any other sport, is made for the modern novel.”
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Friday Finds: Hisham Bustani’s ‘Crossing,’ Translated by Maia Tabet
“You cross the bridge suspended over the canal. Colored ships slowly glide across the surface of blue waters below. Now and then, from beyond the hills of fine sand, a date palm emerges, a village, some people. Fish dart across the lake and a swarthy, dusty child poses for the camera, stick in hand.”
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Shortlists Released for Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature
The prize has six categories: Young Adult Book of the Year, Best Text, Best Illustrations, Best Production, and Digital Book App of the Year. There is also a “Children’s Book of the Year” award, a top prize worth 300,000 AED, that additionally goes to a book in any of the categories.
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In Celebration of Neil Hewison: An Except from His Translation of Yusuf Abu Rayya’s ‘Wedding Night’
Shaykha Aida scolded her sister. “Must you really?”
“The mute knocked into me.”
“I’ll give you a knock!”
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Travelling Light: Walid Taher Talks to Yasmine Motawy About His Latest Book, Out in Arabic and French
“There are codes that you have no access to — and therefore you, like my traveler, are blind.”
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‘Rebellion of Silence’: New Work by Poet-on-trial Dareen Tatour
Blue –
Like the anger of the waves.
I broken my silence,
Only for bitterness to build a settlement in my heart!
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‘A Blade of Grass’: Support Ashraf Fayadh, Dareen Tatour, and New Palestinian Poetry
The grant has allowed Smokestack to pay a small contributors’ fee of £10 a page, but the crowdfunding campaign seeks to “increase this fee to a more professional rate; to cover design and printing costs for the book; and to raise money toward the legal fees of Ashraf Fayadh and Dareen Tatour, both currently imprisoned, respectively in Saudi Arabia and Israel, on charges related to their poetry.”
