Online, Free: 5 by Ghassan Zaqtan, Including Novella ‘Describing the Past’
“To write a memory I gathered a memory / and to green the marshes I sprinkled friends/ over the salt marshes, and was at a loss/ with myself”
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Archive Launch: Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
“Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution,” according to the University of Warwick’s Nicola Pratt, “is an open access digital archive exploring the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath through the prism of popular culture.”
New Fiction in Translation: Bushra Fadil’s ‘Phosphorus at the Bottom of a Well’
“Sa’ad’s death was thus complete and perfect.”
Sunday Submissions: Stephen Spender Prize
The judges for this year’s Stephen Spender Prize are Mary Jean Chan, Khairani Barokka, and Daljit Nagra.
Three Free Online: ‘Modern Art in The Arab World,’ ‘The Stillborn,’ ‘Gate of the Sun’
“Three must-read books, translated mostly or entirely from the Arabic, have appeared free online from publishers in recent weeks.”
Friday Finds: YA in Translation by Taghreed Najjar, Djamila Morani, and Sonia Nimr
Words Without Borders has posted a new special issue this kid-lit-heavy month, “Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature,” curated by translator Elisabeth Jaquette.
Al-Yūsī’s Discourses: Situating a Sufi Scholar in a Vivid 17th-Century Morocco
“It’s not quite the same as a purely autobiographical text, but it’s almost more interesting for that. They’re more like mini-essays. I do think that the work, for that reason, can be read by people who aren’t interested in seventeenth-century Morocco.”
The Challenges of Algerian Comix and ‘A Beautiful Local Production’
“Dalimen Editions really want to widen comic books’ readership. We want to strip away this image of comix as books for children. We have albums aimed at young readers, of course, but we have others for adults because comic books speak to everyone and are accessible to all.”
2020 Int’l Prize for Arabic Fiction to Abdelouahab Aissaoui’s ‘The Spartan Court’
Judges today announced the winner of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction — Abdelouahab Aissaoui’s The Spartan Court, the first Algerian novel to win the prize — in a ceremony that took place entirely online.