10 Works for 10 Years: Celebrating ‘Rusted Radishes’
Today, the American University in Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes celebrates its tenth year with the launch of its tenth issue.
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Bahia Shehab on ‘A History of Arab Graphic Design’
“This is why many of the designers that we interviewed did not really document their design work because to them this was just work.”
Coming Online: Archive of Latin American Arabic Newspapers
Earlier this month, the North Carolina-based Khayrallah Center announced that, through its partnership with USEK Library in Lebanon, the center would be adding digital periodicals from USEK’s Latin American collection to their online searchable database of Arabic newspapers published in the Americas.
From the ‘Mirrors’ Issue: Hilal Badr’s ‘Ash-sha’b Yurid Isqat an-Nizam’
A shout awakens me; someone is yelling, “Ash-sha’b yurid isqat an-nizam [The People want to bring down the regime].” Does anyone believe this? I don’t.
Lit & Found: A Conversation About the Present and Future of Arabic Children’s Lit
Over at Words Without Borders, ArabLit’s M Lynx Qualey talks with publisher Salwa Shakhshir of Dar Salwa, author and book activist Miranda Beshara, and author and disability-rights trainer Mohamed Nabulsi about the present and future of Arabic literature for young readers.
Mirrors Across Cultures: Maha Hassan in Conversation with Addie Leak
“I have trouble dealing with direct realist texts. Even in my novel, Good Morning, War!, which is the closest thing I’ve written to fact or memoir, my mother, who passed away, narrates the day-to-day of the war in Aleppo from the grave.”
Short Fiction: Maheera Migdadi’s ‘Sad Woman’s Mirrors’
She wipes her hand over the mirror like she’s waving goodbye; her drowsy face looks back at her from the blurry glass, reminding her of all the hours she hasn’t slept. It warns of the long day ahead. She’ll be holding her breath for the next twenty-four hours.
London Book Fair Opens Today: Arabic Lit and Translation Highlights
Several Arabic-English literary translators are speaking at panel events, including Nariman Youssef, Alice Guthrie, Sawad Hussain, Katharine Halls, and Marilyn Booth. A handful of Emirati writers will also be speaking, including poets Khalid AlBudoor and Afra Atiq, and novelist Dubai Abulhoul.
April Translation Challenge: Konafa v. Qatayef
For our most recent Translation Challenge, hosted by Adam Talib, participants tried their hand at translating an 1882 text on taxation by ʿAbd Allāh an-Nadīm, and the results were “cruel […]