Lit & Found: ‘Country of Words’ Podcast on Palestinian Literature
2023-06-09
Earlier this week, the “PalREAD – Country of Words” project announced the launch of the debut episode of their new podcast.Continue Reading
Nada Faris on Why She Stopped Avoiding Translation & Bringing Bothayna Al-Essa’s ‘Lost in Mecca’ into English
2023-06-07
” I often avoided translation events because of the ways in which propaganda often slipped into discussions. Even the most liberal and well-meaning teachers were guilty of claiming that the Arabic language is more beautiful and more complex than all other languages and that Arabic poetry is incomparable and thus untranslatable.”Continue Reading
Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend
2023-06-05
The twelve authors from nine countries who recommended books for our list of 2023 summer reads had different ideas about what you need in a summer book.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’
2023-06-02
“It doesn’t feel like an Arabic novel any more to me, now that it’s translated,” Hosam Aboul-ela said. “it feels like a really unique novel of Marxist international revolution.”Continue Reading
From Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s ‘A Friend’s Kitchen’
2023-06-01
Next month, Poetry Translation Centre is releasing a collection of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, A Friend’s Kitchen, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook. To mark the occasion, they have shared an excerpt from the introduction and two poems from the collection.Continue Reading
New Short Fiction: Ahmed Fouad Eldin’s ‘Leeway’
2023-05-29
” Baffled by each other’s proximity and propelled by the desire to brew our drink before the other, we both stretch out our hands, and then draw them back.”Continue Reading
Lit & Found: ‘The Gifts of Movement,’ a Talk with Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous
2023-05-26
“I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.”Continue Reading
From the RAIN Issue: Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘The Water Cords’
2023-05-23
It will be a small miracle if you receive this letter of mine, which I’m writing on a day I skipped from our tour in the forest.Continue Reading
Zahran Alqasmi Wins 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for ‘The Water Diviner’
2023-05-21
“‘The Water Diviner’ by Zahran Alqasmi explores a new subject in modern fiction: water and its impact on the natural environment and the lives of human beings in hostile regions.”Continue Reading
