Weekly Arabic Translation Challenge: The Crime of al-Ma’arri’s Father
هذا جَنَاهُ أبي عليَّ وَمَا جَنَيتُ عَلَى أَحَدِ
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Lock-in Limited Release: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.
Sunday Submissions: Open Letter Books
“Open Letter is a literary press that publishes ten books annually—mostly novels, but also collections of short stories, poetry, and literary essays.”
Bulaq 48: On the Trail of Enayat al-Zayyat
“In 1993, the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal picked up an unknown novel by a forgotten writer from the 60s.”
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;”
‘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.”