Friday Finds: ‘An Authentic Corruption’ by Hermes
“I do not write in the day what I write in the night / because I am like the owl, I have / a slow wing clap and eyes / open to the blight.”
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ArabLit’s List: Best Reads of 2019
In ArabLit’s annual feature, authors, critics, and contributors recommend their favorites of 2019.
Zainab Fasiki, Fighting ‘Hshouma’
She was also inspired by Algerian cartoon artist Slim, and the Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, who writes openly about being gay — and, of course, the Amazigh queen, Kahina.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction: 2020 Longlist Includes 4 from Algeria, Well-Known Writers
In his statement Yasir Suleiman, chair of the Board of Trustees, noted that the longlist was dominated by North African writers, with four books by Algerians, one by a Moroccan writer, one from Tunisia, one from Libya, and two from Egypt. No publisher, this year, had more than two books on the longlist.
Sawiris Prize Announces Its 2019 ‘Young Writer’ Shortlists
Winners are set to be announced January 10, 2020, at the Grand Theater of the Cairo Opera House.
New Fiction in Translation: Excerpt from ‘Dragon of Bethlehem’
“A lizard? Shame on you. Of course, I mean, all due respect to the lizards. But I am not a lizard. I am a dragon.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘The Poetry of the Arab Revolutions’
Submissions of 2-3 poems are preferred, but individual poem submissions will also be accepted.
Christian Junge: On Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and ‘Exposing Words’
In short, Junge writes that al-Fāriyāqīya demands the right to a woman’s participation in lust, which means not only sexual desire, but also social and cultural desires — and thus also linguistic pleasures. Women’s emancipation here means not only women’s participation in knowledge, but also in lust. Woman here are not the object of pleasure, but its subject.
Friday Finds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Trees’
As my husband gets ready for a TV interview about his latest short story collection, he receives a phone call from the host, asking: “What are we going to do about January 25?”