Sunday Submissions: ‘Pen Translates’ Open Until May 31
The PEN Translates award is open for submissions through the end of May.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘Tight Spaces’: Bulaq on ‘Bab as-Saha,’ ‘Nos Richesses,’ and Quarantine
Our forty-seventh episode — “Tight Spaces” — talks about the ups and downs of recent online book events, as well as two novels that have recently appeared in English.
Friday Finds: ‘Through Sightless Eyes’ by Tareq Imam
“You often spoke to me of a blind writer, who was fascinated by mazes and who smiled at even the most dreadful nightmares, while you walked, leaning on my arm—as if I would believe your talk about things that were receding before your eyes day by day.”
Saints, Goats, and Genealogy: The First Volume of al-Yūsī’s Discourses
“Al-Yūsī’s orientation, and Morocco’s orientation at the time, was toward the south. It’s something that we don’t think about today.”
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”
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.”