Later this month, UEA Publishing Project will release Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic, an anthology of short fiction by Arabophone writers from the African diaspora, edited by Garen Torikian and translated by Sawad Hussain and Nariman Youssef.
By M Lynx Qualey Late last month, the new Liblib publishing house made their first public appearance on Facebook, with organizers announcing it as “The newest children’s publishing house on […]
American University in Cairo professor, translator, playwright, actor, and director Mahmoud El Lozy died over the weekend. He was 63.
I say that I’m not afraid/of dying because I haven’t/ yet had the experience/ of death’
“I do know what kind of writer I like – the marginal and contrarian, and those who deal with real life.”
Humphrey Davies produced many translations and gave many interviews on a wide range of work, medieval to contemporary, in his 24 years as a literary translator. These are a few of our favorites.
“Almost 15 years ago, my ex-wife’s father told me that he used his connections in the security services to find out how dangerous my political activity was, and they told him that my political classification in their files was: sympathetic to communists.”
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
“The books that used to be officially banned in the ousted surveillance state, like those of the acclaimed Sudanese novelist Abdelaziz Baraka Saki, and the bold investigative journalist and writer Fathi al-Daw, were supposed to reclaim their place in the shelves of the book fair.”
