From Tareq Imam’s IPAF-shortlisted ‘The Cairo Maquette’
Tareq Imam’s The Cairo Maquette, shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, explores the lives of three main characters: Uriga, Noud, and Billiards.
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A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
Lit & Found: Four Editorials by Doria Shafik, in Translation
Four editorials by Doria Shafik (1908-1975), translated by ArabLit Quarterly contributor Tom Abi Samra, are now online, published in Duke University Press’s journal Meridians.
New Short Fiction in Translation: Mahmoud Tawfik’s ‘The Mirror’
On the third night of the festival, the writer knocked on his interpreter’s door and said: “I need you to be less passionate when you translate. Something about your voice has been irritating me.”
Lit & Found: An Excerpt from Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s ‘Men Who Swallowed the Sun’
Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s Men Who Swallowed the Sun, translated by the late Humphrey Davies, is the focus of the most recent episode of the BULAQ podcast: “Stealing, Drug-dealing, and the Epic of Egyptian Migration.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Shortlists in Translation, ‘Arab Culture in Other Languages,’ Publishing Categories
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award today announced shortlists in three more categories: Translation (into and out of Arabic), “Arab Culture in Other Languages,” and “Publishing & Technology.” All three had multilingual shortlists.
On Cairo’s New Agency for Literature and the Arts
“When I came back to Egypt and started looking for a publisher for my first novel, I faced a lack of a clear process to submit my manuscript to one of the publishing houses or even a clear requirement, or a minimum standard to get my work published.”
Three Gulf Authors Make 6-book Shortlist of 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Judging chair for the 2022 International Prize of Arabic Fiction, Choukri al-Mabkhout, today announced the prize’s six shortlisted novels for this year. For the first time, the shortlist included novels written by authors from the UAE and Oman.
Liblib Launches Its First Series of Children’s Board Books in Egyptian Arabic
“So it’s very important that all the support we have found both online and offline so far translates into sales, in numbers that allow us to print. So in essence we are asking for backing now so that there is a later.”