Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present.
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James Montgomery on Translation, ‘The Vehicle I’ve Been Looking For All Along’
There was a point at which I thought: ‘translation is the vehicle I have been looking for all along for me to try and bring the poetry to life without suffocating or crushing it under this enormously academic super structure.’ Of course, you need all the academic stuff to get inside the poem.
On March 13, Poems for and after Mahmoud Darwish
“Perhaps you’re there now / You watch what’s happening from afar, / and with the silence of a god, / decide to do nothing.”
Lit & Found: Hilal Chouman’s ‘Sorrow in My Heart’
Sorrow in My Heart, recently published by Berlin-based Khan Aljanub, is the fifth novel by acclaimed Lebanese writer Hilal Chouman.
Four Flash Fictions by Saudi Writer Wafa Al-Harbi
Her writing can be characterized by its accessibility to a broad readership and by its ability to surprise the reader in a small space.
Anam Zafar Wins Inaugural ‘New Translator’s Bursary’ from Stinging Fly
Stinging Fly magazine today announced that Anam Zafar has been awarded their inaugural “New Translator’s Bursary,” and that her selected translation of Najat Abed Alsamad’s work – along with her note about the process – is now available on their website.
(Re)collecting Egyptian Folk Songs
In 1958, the Egyptian folk-song collector Bahiga Sidqi Rashid published a small anthology entitled Aghanin misriyya sha‘abiyya (Egyptian Folk Songs). It contained lyrics and melodies to 56 songs and was the first in a series of books she would publish over the next two decades to “preserve for my dear country” a “great and eternal heritage that is surely on its way to being lost.”
Multiple Sclerosis and its Literary Representation: A Talk with Reema Humood
“As a disabled female academic living with (and researching) MS, I sat down with the author to discuss her novel’s gendered elements of disability. In particular, I wanted to know more about her position as abled-bodied author and her choice of MS as the protagonist’s disease.”
Lit & Found: Hoda Barakat, Karim Kattan, and Haytham El Wardany Reflect on Films
The Berlinale Film Festival’s 2022 online catalogue includes authors’ reflections on the films, including reflections by acclaimed authors Hoda Barakat, Karim Kattan, and Haytham El Wardany. Hoda Barakat writes on […]