From ArabLit Quarterly: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
“Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards
utstanding Maghrebi collections have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.
Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa: ‘My Mother is a Terrorist Gang’
“Death called me a couple of hours ago and told me in its foggy and cold voice that it wanted to visit me.”
Two Laughter Poems & a Cover Reveal from Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘You Can Be the Last Leaf’
“You will hear and taste her laughter and also yours. Because laughter is ‘the excess knowledge no one takes seriously,’ the cherished identity smuggled out of psychology and surveilled consciousness.”
A Look Back: Women in Translation Month 2021
“We ran poetry by established and emerging poets — and talked about how women’s poetry in Arabic has changed since the ’90s — published a short story from Iraq, rounded up lists of short stories available online, spoke to writers and scholars, and focused our “Lit & Found” feature on work by women.”
Searching for the Funambulists: Lisa Marchi on Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora
“This is an art that is not meant for the elites, it is meant for the people in the streets. People, I should add, who are perhaps a bit disheartened but still alert, and whose gaze is not fixed on the ground but looks up towards the sky.”
Lit & Found: The Documentary ‘Mujeres Árabes Lápiz en Mano’
This short 29-minute documentary takes the viewer into the lives, studios, and work of four leading Arab comix artists and graphic novelists: Tunisian artist-author Nadia Khiari, Lebanese artist-author Lena Merhej, Moroccan artist-author Zainab Fasiki, and Egyptian artist-author Deena Mohamed.
New Poetry: Rym Jalil’s ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’
“Every day I lie and say / I know this place. / My mother’s kitchen / brims with afflictions / I must pretend to befriend it / we all know it can have only one master / from its beginning to its end”
9 Short Stories by Syrian Women, in Translation
As far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.