Author Archives
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Classical Texts That ‘Capture a Sense of Marvel, Wonder, Humor, And, Above All, Adventure’
“Firstly, these are fun texts that capture a sense of marvel, wonder, humor, and, above all, adventure. In a university setting, both of these texts get at a fundamental human problem that I enjoy highlighting: How does one write about and represent cultures and peoples other than one’s own? What pitfalls await even a sympathetic observer?”
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Sunday Submissions: 2018 Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation Open Now
The winners of the “open” category will receive £1,000 (first), £750 (second) and £500 (third), while the winners of the 18-and-under category will receive £250 (first), £150 (second) and £100 (third). There will be one prize (£100) awarded in the 14-and-under category.
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Dark Poem-tales in ‘A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know’
“But I hate it that I keep watch over the name I was given to capture me, that I drag it & it drags me, and that it’s stuck to my face and has become part of my voice.”
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Friday Finds: An Elegy for Her Father by Pre-Islamic Poet Dakhtanus bint Laqit
He came early with the news:
the best of Khindif, full-grown
and young combined, is dead.
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Ahmed Saadawi’s ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ Makes Man Booker International’s 2018 Shortlist
The winner of the 2018 prize is set to be announced May 22 in London. Each year, the winning team’s £50,000 prize is divided equally between author and translator(s).
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‘Notes on the Flesh’: Shahd Alshammari on Writing the Disabled Body
“As a literary critic and a writer with a disability, I found myself unable to remain silenced about the lack of representation of female diverse bodies.”
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Amir Tag Elsir’s ‘Ebola ’76’ and Ghayath al-Madhoun’s ‘Adrenaline’ Make Best Translated Book Award 2018 Longlists
The finalists for both the fiction and poetry awards will be announced on Tuesday, May 15, with the winners set to be announced on Thursday, May 31.
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‘Using Life’ Among Finalists of First-ever Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
There will be two awards: one for a debut work, and the other for an established author in the genre of speculative fiction. Each award winner will receive $5,000.
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Syrian Novelist Maha Hassan on Trying ‘To Pay Respect to the Victims of War’
In “Good Morning, War,” my mother, who didn’t believe in her death, is the main narrator, speaking from the grave. The shock of my mother’s death, in which I also didn’t believe, and the shock of the fall of my country and its continued destruction, drove me write to hold on to our humanity, so that war victims don’t become numbers.
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Algerian Literature in Italian
“This year, we’ll translate Ta’ al-khajal by Fadela Alfarouk and we will do the translation as a collective one (I’m convinced that collective knowledge production is always better than individual one).”
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Award-winning Iraqi Novelist and Short-story Writer Saad Mohammed Raheem, 61
Raheem also wrote political and literary theory, but he believed in the role of the novel as a tool of cultural enlightenment; this was the subject of his final tweet.
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Sunday Submissions: Anthology Searching for Poems by Young Arab Poets
“Submissions are welcome in either English or Arabic. Previously unpublished poets are encouraged to submit their work; however, we are looking for quality literary writing and writers who have a proper command of evocative language.”
