Classic Short Fiction: ‘The Funeral of the Machine’
“So you are still determined to sell the three mules?”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
New Poetry in Translation: ‘Obituaries’
“The city wakes up in obituaries.”
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s ‘The Wall’
“The Wall,” by the massively popular Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962-2008) is from his collection “Now I Understand.”
Said Khatibi’s ‘I Resist the River’s Course’ Wins 2026 IPAF
Algerian novelist Said Khatibi’s I Resist the River’s Course was today named the winner of the 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) by the prize’s judging chair Mohamed Elkadhi.
From Mohamed Abd ElGawad’s ‘A Report on the Pussycat’
“It was ridiculous, the way the battle of tuk-tuks and microbuses began.”
Rasha Omran: ‘I Want to Smile’
“I want to step out on my balcony and hang my laughter out on the clothesline, so that passersby can catch hold of it, scale the wall to the fourth floor, and laugh with me.”
From Areej Gamal’s ‘Mariam, It’s Arwa’
Areej Gamal’s Sawiris-winning novel Mariam, It’s Arwa appeared at the end of last month in Addie Leak’s translation. The titular Arwa and Mariam meet near Cairo University during the 2011 Egyptian uprising, and the encounter changes them both.
In the Details: Masks, Memory, and Narrative Defiance
“A Mask the Color of the Sky” practices what it clearly laid out: using literature to engage obsessively with colonial details, to challenge them, and to insist on a Palestinian narrative.
2 Arabic Titles on EBRD Literature Prize’s 2026 Shortlist
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) today announced the 10-book shortlist for its 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. The unusual lit prize honors books from nine of the countries in which the Bank operates.