‘The Dangers of Poetry’: Translating Poetry to History
“Poetry brought a certain degree of cultural legitimacy to politicians, who simultaneously cultivated the support of prominent poets and feared the repercussions of their failure to do so.”
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Nizar Qabbani’s 1967 Letter To Gamal Abdel Nasser
“Whoever loves his country, Mr. President, purifies its wounds with alcohol, and with fire cauterizes—if need be—the areas that are wounded.”
New Fiction in Translation: ‘The Cats’ by Mohamed El-Makhzangi
“And whenever they slipped past my door, I’d throw a folded-up piece of paper at them or, to make them panic, I’d pretend I was about to throw my book.”
Publisher and Author Riyad al-Rayyis Dies at 83
“He founded his publishing house in London in 1986, and moved it to Beirut in the early 1990s.”
Sunday Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly Winter 2020: DREAMS
ArabLit Quarterly’s Winter 2020 issue will have a focus on DREAMS.
Bulaq 56: ‘The Cat Is Out of the Bag’
This episode of Bulaq looks at the Fall 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
Friday Finds: Ines Abassi’s ‘The Key’
“The last key I carried /dangles alone on the key rack / like a corpse at the gallows”
‘Center for Greek and Arabic Literature and Culture’ Launches
The idea for the center was sparked by the Arab World Festival Corfu in 2011.
A Talk with Susanne Abou Ghaida: What Do Teens Think of Arabic YA?
“All those who are knowledgeable about Arabic children’s literature became that way through personal effort, seeking out books here and there, following people (authors, publishers, book influencers) on social media, and buying books at their own expense.”