Finalists from the previous workshops in Cairo, Beirut, and Jericho were invited to apply for this year’s Frankfurt workshop, which will be led by Palestinian novelist and short-story writer Adania Shibli and Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany. Select short stories will be published bilingually on the adda literary website.
The magazine Modern Poetry in Translation has launched an online translation workshop focused on Adil Latefi’s poem “Debate.”
We are in the process of hunting down Arabic cat stories, cat tales, cat anecdotes, cat poetry, The Great Cairo Cat Novel, and other feline literary productions in Arabic.
“Has the personal lived experience become the only source for forging new meaning in the collapse of patriarchy?”
The prize is open for submissions until January 31, 2020.
Why have the Palestinians disappeared once again?
“The Chaldean translator turns to the truck driver:” / “Le traducteur chaldéen regarde le chauffeur de la fourgonnette”
“In Abu Dhabi, the festival will host internationally acclaimed authors and thinkers including Nobel Laureates Ahmed Galai and Shirin Ebadi, Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat, winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and writers Adonis, Jokha Alharthi, Muhammed Hasan Alwan, Tishani Doshi, and many more.”
“‘Strip’ is a captivating debut about desire and dispossession, and that tireless poetic metaphor, the body. Audacious and clear-eyed, plainspoken and brassy, these are songs that break free from confinement.”
