Cat Tales: 9 Short Stories That Center Felines
Inspired by BookRiot’s recent list of new books in translation featuring cats, we revisit some of our favorite feline-focused short fictions. Egypt Egypt has many fictional cats, many of which […]
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New Poetry from Wadih Saadeh’s Forthcoming Collection
Late this fall, Tenement Press will be bringing out a selection of work by the celebrated Lebanese-Australian poet Wadih Saadeh, titled A Horse at the Door. The book, forthcoming December […]
On an Award-Winning Novel & the Unstable Literary Scene in Libya
By Olivia Snaije When the Libyan writer Mohammed Alnaas won the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his debut novel Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table (Meskliniai Publishers & […]
‘My Grandfather and the Bookseller’
This essay first appeared in Romman in 2020. My Grandfather and the Bookseller By Abdalla Bayyari Translated by Dima Masri My maternal grandfather was a multilingual reader, and his library, […]
New Poetry from Gaza by Mohammed AlQudwa
War’s Echo By Mohammed AlQudwa Translated by Tala Al-Banna I have known war’s echo since I was a child age five when a rocket visited the sky of my […]
New Short Fiction: Azher Jerjis’s ‘The Crow’s Revelation’
This spring, Banipal Books brought out Iraqi novelist Azher Jirjees’s At Home in the Cherry Orchard. Here, emerging translator Bianca Rosen brings us one of Jirjees’s satiric short stories from […]
On Translating a Novel of ‘Profound Gentleness in a Violent Milieu’
By Olivia Snaije Libyan novelist Mohammed Alnaas recently visited France for the launch of his award-winning debut novel’s French translation: Du pain sur la table d’oncle Milad (خبز على طاولة […]
The Story of a Poem: Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die’
By Salih J Altoma “And in Gaza and the West Bank, a new generation of poets persists. The most famous, of course, is Refaat Alareer, who was murdered by an Israeli […]
New Poetry: ‘Feet That Come Before the Dawn’
Palestinian poet Ramzi Salem’s “لم أنجُ من الحرب” originally appeared in Al Araby in January 2024. We ran a translation of his “أقدامٌ تسبق الفجر” yesterday. Feet That Come Before […]