Starting Tomorrow: Read Palestine Week
As in previous years, the 2025 READ PALESTINE WEEK will run from November 29-December 5.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Lit Longlist
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the longlists in four of the prize’s categories for 2026: Literature, Young Author, Children’s Literature, and Editing of Arabic Manuscripts.
‘The Love’: New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
“Marriage is the afterlife / for which we have to cross this life, / leaving behind our homes and pasts, / waiting for justice with a light heart, / where our homes become our graves.”
Two New Poems by Olivia Elias
“nothing to hold on to no more suitcases / & nothing left to take away”
Classic Short Fiction: Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani’s ‘My Secret Picture’
Palestinian short-story writer, publisher and translator Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani (1914-1974) writes about love, loyalty, and gender expectations in the early twentieth century.
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour Wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe
The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe — held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 — was an emotionally charged affair.
‘The Experience’: New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
“My city is full of barking / as if it were our shared memory / howling out there, in the cold.”
Tracing a Line, from Arwa to Enayat
“Every time Arwa and Enayat stepped from the private to the public, they returned disappointed. I should clarify that I am not offering an idealistic theory that assumes the world should reward people for their intentions and desires. However, I imagine that their experiences could have been less cruel in other societies that don’t seal the public sphere up so tightly.”
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an author, and ways of making co-translation equitable.