10 Poems for ‘Medieval Femme,’ Inspired by al-Khansa
“Like music from the courts of the Abbasid Caliphate after a decadent cybernetic makeover.”
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Mohamed Boukhza on Mohamed Choukri: ‘Romantic, Short-tempered,’ and with No Time for Hypocrites or Flatterers
“He was a multi-faceted person: romantic, short tempered, and self-loving with a high self-esteem. When surrounded by friends he liked, he would laugh hysterically. In him there was a mixture of spontaneity, adventure, and shrewdness. He was not malicious, and he believed in what he wrote.”
Publication Day Giveaway: ‘Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook’
Today, it also happens to be publication day for Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook by Karim Alrawi, illustrated by Nahid Kazemi.
14 Translations To Look for in Fall 2021
Fourteen of the translations coming from Arabic to English in the fall of 2021.
ArabLit Redesign: Help Us With a Short Survey
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Lit & Found: Asmaa Azaizeh’s ‘Reflection’
“Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher. / I feel like I handed him my head / and the words I speak from now on
/ will come out of his mouth. / What a disaster!”
On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”
Yasmine Seale Wins 2022 PEN Grant to Translate al-Nabulsi
Translator and author Yasmine Seale has won a 2022 PEN America Literary Grant to support her translation of If You See Them Fall to Earth by Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (1641-1731).
Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay,’ tr. Leri Price, Longlisted for National Book Award
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have been longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.