The deadline for applications is Friday July 3, 2020, at 4:00 PM Beirut time.
‘Here Comes the Ripper’
"Lion’s fangs glimmer / You smile in return, but / Here comes the ripper"
Another Road for Syrian Poetry
"The divide among poets has added a diaspora to the spatial diaspora, which scattered Syrians around the world."
Friday Finds: A New Excerpt from ‘Born: The Story of Naela Kamel, née Marie Elie Rosenthal’
"Tante Aziza and Nana came over to our house on Naim Street and said that Saad wanted to marry me. We sat around the dinner table, which was a square table in the middle of the living room."
Drones and Clones: Mapping Palestinian Sci Fi with Lindsey Moore
"I’m very interested in the manipulation of temporality -- or rather, as I’ve suggested, time-space configuration -- that we see in Palestinian SF across different media."
Adel Kamel (1916-2005) in Family Photos and Memories
"He was a very intellectual person, very forward thinking, sometimes too forward in his ideas. He did not really mash into the traditional Coptic orthodox conservative life."
Publisher Seif Salmawy: On Rediscovering Adel Kamel
"Malleem Al Akbar, with its iconoclastic introduction, is probably one of the most important works of fiction to come out of Egypt in the past century. It had long been out of print, and many people had heard of it, but very few had actually read it."
Adel Kamel’s Characters are ‘Despicable and Lovable with No Contradiction’
"He's funny, he's philosophical in a way that is always wonderfully down to earth and adds to the humor. His characters are despicable and lovable with no contradiction. Sometimes just despicable."
Adel Kamel and the ‘Magnificent Conman of Cairo’
To celebrate the translation of this forgotten classic, a few views on the book and on its author.
Arabic Translation Challenge: If You See His Fangs Bared …
إذا رَأيْتَ نُيُوبَ اللّيْثِ بارِزَةً * فَلا تَظُنّنّ أنّ اللّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ
Lock-in Summer of Lit: Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud’s ‘Crocodiles’ Laughter’
He asked her whether she’d seen his crocodile. She exhaled angrily.
Sunday Submissions: Mizna Poetry Coalition Fellowship
Mizna, a "critical platform for contemporary literature, art, film, and cultural programming centering the work of Southwest Asian and North African artists," is seeking applicants for its poetry coalition fellowship.
