Charif Majdalani Wins Prix Femina for ‘Beirut 2020: Chronicle of a Collapse’
Lebanese author Charif Majdalani has won a 2020 Prix Femina “special jury prize” for his “Beyrouth 2020: Journal d’un effondrement.”
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‘Dear Tayeb Salih’
This letter originally appeared in the debut issue of ArabLit Quarterly: Beginnings, published in the Fall of 2018.
Sunday Submissions: UK Digital Collaboration Fund
Eligible partner countries include Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.
First Bulaq Book Club Pick: ‘Season of Migration to the North’
All are invited to read or re-read Season of Migration to the North, look through other books by Salih, and join Bulaq on November 19 (or thereafter).
Friday Finds: Reem Khorshid’s ‘Experiencing the Sounds and Silences of Cairo’
“When the sound processor of my cochlear implant is switched on, I feel like I hardly know this place. I fail at all attempts to conjure the old sounds of my hometown as my brain now perceives them in a different way. The pitches, the frequencies, the tones, and the ranges now have offbeat qualities that have taken over the sounds of the past.”
Hawraa Al-Hassan on Reading Resistance and Collaboration in Iraqi Novels
“It is important to note that the state marketed the novels it sponsored (including the novels of Saddam) as belonging to Arab ‘resistance literature’; a corpus of works with a long tradition of anti-imperialist struggle in the Arab world.”
5 Questions: Publishing’s 2020 ‘Hotlist: Arab World’
At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépendants presented the first-ever “Arab World Hotlist,” a curated selection of titles from 30 independent publishing houses in seven […]
‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Makes Longlist for 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has announced the 16 titles longlisted for their fourth annual award. One title translated from the Arabic made the list: Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
Four Poems by Sargon Boulus Prize-winning Emad Abu Saleh
Happily, Huda Fakhreddine here shares four poems she translated as part of her forthcoming The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (March 2021).