January Translation Challenge: Kushajim
“Nothing could be more befitting than Kushājim’s epigrammatic riddles.”
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Critic, Scholar Gaber Asfour Dies at 77
Egyptian literary critic, scholar, and two-time Minister of Culture Gaber Asfour died on Friday at the age of 77.
Lit & Found: 5 of the Best Arab Comics & Graphic Novels of 2021
Over at Middle East Eye, Bahira Amin has put together an excellent list of five of the best comics and graphic-novel releases of 2021.
Authors & Translators Who Left Us in 2021
A look back at a few authors, translators, and publishers who left us in 2021.
Poetry in Translation: Salah Jahin’s ‘Cigarette Ash’
Salma Harland translates the legendary “Cigarette Ash” («تراب دخان» ) written by the legendary Salah Jahin (1930-1986) in 1967.
Linguistic Embodiment: A Talk with Lisa J. White and Mahmoud Shaltout
“. In short, this book can be integrated into any Arabic teaching curriculum as a supplement, and it can be enjoyed on its own by the linguistically curious, cultural enthusiasts, and art lovers of every description.”
From the FOLK Issue: ‘Death in Three Portraits’
Bakhit Al-Bashari lay in his sickbed, the same bed he once made with his bare hands from the stalks of palm fronds.
Lit & Found: ‘Western Poets Kidnap Your Poems and Call Them Translations’
“What makes translations a must? Where does this blind faith in translation come from? Doesn’t translation act also as unconditional access, as surveillance, as an expanding force of the global capitalist market of literature?”
Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation Announces Winners, Unawarded Prizes
“However, this year, several prizes went un-awarded. For instance, there were second and third prizes for English-to-Arabic translation, but not a first, and a second prize for Arabic-to-English translation — Ovamir Anjum’s translation of Ranks of the Divine Seekers by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya — but no first or third.”