Join Banipal Fellows and Translators in Zoom Talk Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 4 p.m. BST, Banipal magazine and St. Aidan’s College will be hosting a Zoom event to celebrate five years of the Banipal visiting writer fellowship.
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ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.
Monday Poem: ‘Even Those Who — Temporarily — Survived’
“and they wished away the rest of her generation, tomorrow / and, after tomorrow, all those who thought / —just thought— / of praying for her”
Listen: ‘Writing Through Crisis | كتابة الأزمة’ Podcast Series
Writing Through Crisis is a podcast series that, according to organizers, “explores the possibility of recovery through language.”
Friday Finds: Adania Shibli, Haytham el-Wardany, and Sinan Antoon in ‘Specimen’
“Assuming that words’ eyes have also been gouged, this dossier asks: How can literature assist us in reclaiming the capacity to imagine a less monstrous form of togetherness today?”
Eritrea-based Arabic Short-story Prizes Announces 2020 Winner
The winner of the 2020 prize, named for the renowned Eritrean writer, went to Sudanese short-story writer Mohammed Hassan Al-Nahat for “باحة بروكا” (“Broca’s Area”).
Books by Adania Shibli, Jonas Hassen Khemiri Make 2020 National Book Awards Longlist
The ten fictional works that made the 2020 longlist are surprisingly diverse.
Tunisian Author and Philosopher Kamel Zoghbani Dies at 55
Tunisian writer and philosopher Kamel Zoghbani (1965-2020) died on Monday, September 14, after a sudden heart attack. He was 55.
Announcing the Shortlist for 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
This year’s shortlisted stories — selected blindly, as in past years — were chosen by Hilal Chouman, Donia Kamal, and 2019 ArabLit Story Prize winning translator Sawad Hussain.