"Though English is the target language, the emerging translator need not live in the United States."
Mohammed Said Hjiouij Wins Inaugural Ismail Fahd Ismail Prize
"For my grandmother, her father was a martyr in the glorious battle of Annual. She convinced herself of this, and she believed it."
Friday Finds: Conor Bracken Translates the Late Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
"Time fled past the trashcans. Zodiac partied hard with long and bloody fireflies."
10 Recipes from Medieval Arabic Texts
The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were -- among other things -- a wonderful period for Arabic cookery compilations, several of which have recently been translated to English.
Recommended Read: ‘Palestine as Metaphor’
"I don't like to resemble these taxi drivers to whom passing journalists glean their quick impressions about the country they are visiting."
Hilal Chouman: ‘This is Truly the Revolution of the Disenfranchised’
"I believe the past — whether we call it a civil war or peace — will not end until the fall of the Second Republic, which is the protector of the official narrative of the civil war and the killer of the war’s missing and kidnapped."
English & Arabic: A List of Bilingual Books
Yet there were far fewer contemporary prose works produced bilingually, and even fewer that remain in print. Please do add others in the comments.
Sunday Submissions: Triple Canopy Seeking ‘Fictions of Nationalism’
"Each commission recipient will receive: a $2,000 honorarium; eight to twelve months of artistic, editorial, and technical support; the possibility of using Triple Canopy’s Manhattan office and venue for an event devoted or related to the work; and archiving of the project by Triple Canopy in partnership with NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections."
Bulaq 39: Writers Are Not Magic
Can a poem save the world? Can a novel change the course of humanity? Can a hybrid work leap a building in a single bound?
Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages
You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.
Sudanese Author Omayma Abdullah on the Writer’s Heart
"No writer can take the possession of his or her heart for granted; it seems be a writer's fate that their heart is always at in the hands of others, and others’ hearts clustering around them."
ArabLit Holiday Gift Guide 2019
For every literature-lover, food-eater, cat-lover, and beverage-drinker on your gift list.
