Sunday Submissions: BU’s One-year MFA in Literary Translation
Boston University’s one-year MFA in literary translation is now accepting applications for next fall.
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Upcoming Events: A ‘History of the Arabic Book’ Translating Octavia Butler, More
Events coming up in the next week include a talk about translating Octavia Butler’s Kindred, “The History of the Arabic Book: A New Chapter;” “Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond;” and “Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of the Thousand and One Nights.”
Friday Finds: Poems from Najwan Darwish’s ‘Exhausted on the Cross’
In it, Zurita opens by quoting from the poem “My Defeated Banner,” of which he says that “in its devastating beauty, it represents one of the peak moments of his poetry as well as of the writing of our time.”
‘Born on the Wrong Side of the Border’
“Why was I sitting here, wearing this uniform, with these people whose language I hardly understood?”
Mourning Sudanese Author Ibrahim Ishaq
Last Saturday, the Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information announced that prominent novelist Ibrahim Ishaq had died in the United States. He was 75.
New: Samira Azzam Collection Forthcoming from ALQ Books
“The collection — being translated by Ranya Abdelrahman — will draw from the collections published during Azzam’s lifetime.”
New Fiction in Translation: ‘Naked Robot’
“Yet none of us could object, as that was the way things were; these were the laws of our society, and we were completely satisfied with them. I didn’t know whether we had a choice in this satisfaction, but I didn’t like to tire my mind thinking about it.”
Sunday Submissions: Lunch Ticket’s Literary Translation Contest, the ‘Gabo Prize’
The submissions window for Lunch Ticket’s literary translation contest, the Gabo Prize, is open through January 31.
Saturday Events: ‘A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem’
Dartmouth College’s open Middle Eastern literature lecture series starts on Wednesday, January 27, with a talk by Princeton’s Lara Harb.