Friday Finds: ‘I Sleep in My Inkwell and Wave to the Distant’
“of footfalls that never return / from the checkpoint / which only sends back bodies;”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘Naguib Mahfouz Awards’ to Reem Bassiouney, Mohamed Abdellatif
Each category comes with a prize of 75,000 Egyptian pounds.
New to Watch: Online Video Discussions with Algerian Writers
“After every interview, I feel that I have visited Algeria from my house in Oxford.”
Pub Day: Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ Tr. Elisabeth Jaquette
“Aside from these, nothing at all, just a great expanse of the arid Negev desert, over which crouched the intense August heat.”
On The Zoom Launch of Noor Naga’s ‘Washes, Prays,’ With ‘All the Weirdness’ Left In
Naga said that, if she could have simply called it a novel, she would have. But once you start calling something fiction, “editors tend to get very restrictive and edit all the weirdness out.”
Lock-in Literature: Ali el-Makk’s ‘Forty-One Minarets’
“What about the one who called the mosque after himself and built a sky-scraping minaret? People said he built his wealth from dubious deals. Certainly, people’s gossip was endless.”
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders 2020 ‘Poems in Translation’ Contest
“Winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each.”
May Releases: From Arabic Cult Classics to Dark Fiction
Three compelling May releases will be available next week.
Friday Finds: An Excerpt of ‘The Butcher of Casablanca’
“He hummed a favorite tune as he went about his gruesome chore. When he was finished, he arranged the body parts in two garbage bags. Then he cleaned the floor, showered, and put on a change of clothes. He stretched out on the bed, lit a cigarette, and took a deep, delicious, triumphant puff.”