Classic Short Fiction by Ali Al-Douagi
“Ah, how immense my delight when I saw the moving cart piled high with carpets, lamps, and sacks of every size and color!”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Three Poems from Gaza
“I pace this room alone, / fingertips brushing the wall, / memorizing each mark, each echo.”
Books that Open Worlds: A Palestinian Reader’s Journey
“Ultimately, the arrival of Asad’s Secret in English is as much an act of preservation as it is an act of translation.”
Three New Poems by Maysara Salah El-Din
“Once, I became / A cloud / To gain / Flight experience / And twice / I became / A brick / To gain / Experience in falling.”
From Kawther Al-Jahmi’s ‘A Son of the Country’
The novel poses a question about identity: Is it a piece of paper, or a sense of belonging?
New on BULAQ: Writing from Amman
This new episode of the BULAQ podcast explores Jordanian literature and writing about the city of Amman with Ibtihal Reda Mahmood, editor and translator of the anthology Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan.
Liblib Publishing Wins Beyond Literature Borders Grant
Liblib’s project, called “It’s Our Art Too! — Rehla” will happen between London and Cairo, in cooperation with the built environment collective Megawra.
‘He Dies for As Long As Possible’
This short piece appeared, in a slightly different form, in the SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly in the Spring of 2021.
‘The Desert Also Keened’
Ibrahim al-Koni’s “The Desert Also Keened” was the winner of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize in Dima El Mouallem’s translation.