Yasmina Jraissati on How She Got Her Start as a Literary Agent
“So I felt like, Okay, this is my domain, this is literature. It wasn’t Arabic any more, it was literature. And that was my way in.”
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From ALQ: ‘How Moroccans Laugh’
“Jokes are the salt of social life.”
Lit & Found: Hadil Ghoneim Talks to Trevor LeGassick
On Tuesday, scholar and translator Trevor LeGassick died after battling cancer. He was 86.
Online Extra: Arabic & English from ‘Solace for the Traveler and Entertainment for the Conversationalist’
“Such compilations were common. At a time when people could not entertain themselves with TV and thumb-wrecking scrolling on myriad social media platforms, compilations kept them company. These works tended to be written in small notebooks easy to carry in one’s pocket or satchel.”
Ghareeb Asqalani, a Founder of Gazan Literature, Dies at 74
Ghareeb Asqalani, a Palestinian novelist and short-story writer who Atef Abu Saif called a representative of “the generation that founded the short story in Gaza in the 1970s and 1980s,” died in Gaza on Tuesday.
Hot, Short, & Fast: 8 Summer Reads
Today, on the first day of summer and the longest day of the year, we have put together a list of new releases that are hot, fast, and short (and sometimes funny), with an emphasis on collections.
New Short Fiction: Mansour El-Souwaim’s ‘The Gizzard Tree’
Editor’s note: We share this story as part of our ongoing “In Focus: Sudan” section, which you can find at arablit.org/sudan. * The Gizzard Tree By Mansour El-Souwaim Translated by […]
IN ON THE JOKE: The Launch of the Summer 2022 Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
Today we’re launching the Summer 2022 JOKE themed issue of ArabLit Quarterly, guest edited by Anam Zafar.
‘Sindbad Jeunesse,’ a Bilingual French/Arabic Collection for Children, Set to Launch in September
Readers of Arabic and French will be pleased to know that French publisher Actes Sud’s Arabic literature imprint, Sindbad — which is now in its 50th year — is set to launch a bilingual collection for children.