These are the opening pages to Akram Musallam’s powerful novella, A Girl from Shatila. In the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, we walk through the memories of a survivor, the Mermaid, and follow her journey in Hamburg, Germany recollecting the pieces of her past. Continue Reading
Today marks the English-language launch of Eritrean novelist Haji Jaber’s Black Foam.Continue Reading
Haji Jaber’s Black Foam is full of diverse cultural, linguistic, and musical landscapes. It opens in Addis Ababa, Eritrea, one of the final stages in our main character’s journey from his tangled past to what he hopes will be a new life in Israel. Throughout the novel, Adal (later Dawoud, David, and Dawit) re-inventsContinue Reading
” The truth is that the person who didn’t leave my mind is someone I didn’t talk to; rather, we kept looking at each other without speaking.”Continue Reading
Moroccan author Anis Arafai won the Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story for his collection “سيرك الحيوانات المتوهمة” (The Circus of Imaginary Beasts). Continue Reading
“The ghostly effect, however, isn’t haunting, but an empathetic hand across time.”Continue Reading
The theme of the Winter 2023 issue of Kohl magazine is “Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries,” with work that ranges from speculative literary conversations to translation to theory. Continue Reading
“It is said that blue is an antidote to sexual excitation—and I was a raging bull then. It is also said that blue calms the nerves—and I was on the edge of madness, bad temper was my inheritance, my father was known for it.”Continue Reading
Books are selected for the awards on the basis of “outstanding literary quality, the strength of the publishing project, and their contribution to UK bibliodiversity.”Continue Reading
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