Yesterday, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced the longlist for the prize’s 2021-22 “literature” category. The 15-book longlist is made up of thirteen prose works and two poetry collections written by authors from nine countries: Iraq, Egypt, Oman, Morocco, Mauritania, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait.
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Egyptian Novelist Shady Lewis on Coptic Identity, Church-State Relations, and Citizenship
“In Ways of the Lord, Christians are mistaken for being Jews and are accused of spying for Israel, which demonstrates the lack of recognition of Copts and their conflation with other minorities.”
Read moreNew Fiction: Ameer Hamad’s ‘Captain Majid’
This story, by Palestinian author Ameer Hamad, first ran in our Fall 2021 FOOTBALL issue.
Read moreAnam Zafar Wins 2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
Translator Anam Zafar won the 2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for her work on four stories from Najat Abed Alsamad’s In the Tenderness of War.
Read moreLit & Found: Banipal 72, Iraqi Jewish Writers
The magazine’s seventy-second issue features short stories, novel excerpts, and poems by 17 authors of Iraqi descent, guest-edited by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani and Yuval Evri.
Read morePublished in 2021: Arabic Literature in Catalan, English, Euskera, French, German, Greek, Italian, Malayalam, Portuguese, Spanish, & Turkish Translation
For those who are interested in comparing covers and presentations across language, follow our “six languages, six covers” series over at Instagram.
Read moreStorytellers of the 1001 Nights: A Conversation with Paulo Horta
“In English we have far fewer translations of the Nights than we might imagine.”
Read moreForthcoming 2022: Arabic Literature in English Translation
More than 30 Arabic literary works are set to be published in English translation in 2022. As in past years, the novel dominates.
Read moreReview & Excerpt: ‘The Marooned Mirror,’ A Wonderland Revisited
Captured in the Twilight Wood, Faris and Farah go on a page-turning adventure while taking part in a long-awaited uprising against evil.
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