Watch Now: ALTA Bilingual Reading Series
On October 6, the American Literary Translators Association held a bilingual reading series focused on Arabic, Turkish, and Persian texts.
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Youssouf Amine Elalamy, Nina Bouraoui Finalists for 2020 ‘Prix des cinq continents’
Books by Moroccan writer Youssouf Amine Elalamy and Algerian-French writer Nina Bouraoui made this year’s Prix des cinq continents: Each year, the Five Continents Prize goes to a work of […]
Works by Adania Shibli, Jonas Hassen Khemiri Are 2020 National Book Awards Finalists
Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, in Elisabeth Jaquette’s translation from Arabic, and Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Family Clause, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menziet, both made the 2020 shortlist of the National Book […]
‘Palestine Writes’ Coming as Digital Festival December 2-6
Tickets to the digital event begin at $10, and while the full program will be announced in November, the website promises events for children, panel discussions, music, workshops, poetry, cooking demonstrations, readings, and more.
Monday Literature: ‘Schrödinger’s Cats’ by Ameer Hamad
“Bella felt she had several cats at once, and that the spirit of her cat was being continually rejuvenated, such that she could never guess what her cat would do next.”
Safaa Fathy’s ‘I Would Like to Say’
“I say: I want neither father nor mother, nor to have them put on my road, or slipped into my story.”
Sarah Coolidge on the the Dual-language Poetry Anthology ‘Home’
“The idea behind the Calico Series was always to create books that we ourselves would want to read.”
Friday Finds: Three Poems and a Digital Book Launch with Najwan Darwish
The launch of the new book — set for October 15 at 7 p.m. BST — will feature readings by Darwish and Alshaer, along with a discussion of the poems and the translation process with PTC commissioning editor Edward Doegar.
Launch of ‘Once Upon a Time in Aleppo’
The event, “Poems to Live for: Session 6,” is supported by the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine.