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“They say this city was once beautiful.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sunday Classics: Samira Azzam, Whose ‘Relative Obscurity Today Is a Grave Injustice’
“I would love for her entire corpus to be translated, particularly given that what little has been so far is highly unrepresentative of her overall body of literature.”
#WiTMonth Friday Finds: Rachida Madani in English and Arabic
“But men / but the wind push her out on the cliff. / She watches the ocean / she would like to hurl herself into the ocean / to drink up the ocean.”
Three to Read: Maghrebi Women Writing in Dutch
For Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we focus on three Maghrebi women writing in Dutch.
Kuwaiti Parliament Votes to Abolish Censorship Committee for Books
“What the law means is that banning will no longer be the default position, whereby, like in the case of Mama Hessa’s Mice, the author has to go to court, at great personal expense, to get it unbanned. Instead the person who wants it banned would have to go to court for a ruling.”
Going on Now: Arab and Arabic Events at the Free, Online Edinburgh Book Fest
The Edinburgh International Book Fest is going on now through the end of the month. This year, events are free, and there are a number of Arab- and Arabic-literature-focused events.
#WiTMonth’s Translate This: Hadiya Hussein’s ‘What Will Come’
“You’ll find something that looks like a boulder, but it’s not—it’s cork, painted so that it resembles rock. Push it aside and go out. A few meters away you’ll find someone who’ll look after you.”
Algiers International Book Fair Promises Virtual Substitute
SILA, which is one of Algeria’s main literary events, is traditionally held each year at the end of October and beginning of November.
Remembering Fadwa Suleiman: ‘Two Tears Flooding Paris’
This poem first appeared in the British magazine The Wolf. It appears here — to celebrate the life and writing of Fadwa Suleiman — with permission.