Live Today: Margaret Litvin on Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Ice’
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Friday Finds: ‘The Appearance of the Dragon, and His Disappearance’
Khidr’s heart was pounding as he stepped into the house. It was almost sunset, and his mom wasn’t usually this late. Was she on an emergency visit to the hospital to see his dad?
On Sudanese Playwright-Poet Adil Ibrahim Muhammed Khair
Khair’s shows make the slow-paced town and the dilapidated, decayed and history-laden theatre building pulse with energy and life, pumping lifeblood into the underfunded and cash-starved local performance arts.
2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners: Barakat, Al Jayyusi, Ouhaïbi
Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the winners — in seven categories — of their 14th annual prize.
On Ghassan Kanafani Day: 5 Online Reads
“Kanafani made me aware of the importance of being part of what is happening in your generation. You cannot be an outsider.”
Etel Adnan’s ‘Time’ Makes Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
Four books made the 2020 international shortlist, but just one translation: Etel Adnan’s “Time,” translated from the French by Sarah Riggs.
Two Books by Ramy al-Asheq Forthcoming in English Translation
“The situation in Syria for the past decade has been complicated and confounding, and Ramy’s work emerges out of this confusion not to give us solutions but instead to bring us into it as well.”
Special Limited Publication: Stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
Four stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats are available free on ArabLit until the end of this month.
Muhammad El-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
“You’re going to leave, and I won’t have anyone to cry or go hysterical with,” I said after we’d caught our breath.