‘No In-Between’: 10 Book Titles Changed in Translation
“Titles are complicated, because it’s different from the actual content. It makes sense; you want titles to evoke something in the audience. But sometimes, they’re not the best choices.”
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Announcing: Some Changes at ArabLit.org & New Submission Guidelines
We’ve been gradually moving away from daily updates, and this will now continue, as we focus on curating content that is richer and broader in scope.
Lit & Found: An Excerpt from Areej Gamal’s Sawiris-winning ‘Hi Maryam, It’s Arwa’
” I got used to our peculiar life in Riyadh. It wasn’t like anyone else’s; we weren’t like anyone else.”
An Excerpt of Fadi Zaghmout’s Speculative Novel ‘A Needle and a Thimble’
The fourth novel by Jordanian author and gender activist Fadi Zaghmout is set in an alternate universe where people are divided not by gender but by height. In it, a character of middling height appears and throws a short dressmaker’s life into disarray.
Lit & Found: Winners of Inaugural Barjeel Mudun Short Story Prize
The inaugural Barjeel Mudun Prize recognized five short stories: three in English and two in Arabic, focused on Sharjah, Alexandria, Kuwait City, Sana’a, and Rabat.
‘What Happened to Zeeko?’ Celebrating Emily Nasrallah, BOTD in 1931
“My mom wrote the novel [in the early eighties], and back then I refused to let her publish it, as I didn’t want to hear about it.”
From ALQ: Muhammad Zafzaf’s ‘Borges in the Hereafter’
“But, Mr. President,” Borges cut in, “we’re already dead.”
Turkish Literature in Arabic & Other Tongues
“A closer look at the translation activities in the geography that shares certain common cultures with Turkey, six major translation junctions can be discerned: the Baghdad-centered translation movement, the Toledo movement in Andalusia, the era of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, the Ottoman Translation Chamber, the Translation Office in the Turkish Republic period, and the TEDA project.”
Lit & Found: New England Review’s Summer Issue Features New Writing from Lebanon
This summer’s international feature, “Polyglot and Multinational: Lebanese Writers in Beirut and Beyond,” guest edited by poet and translator Marilyn Hacker, gathers the work of 14 Lebanese writers and their translators.