Between Green and Blue: A Conversation with Abdallah Zrika
“Poetry, for me, seeks that which is foundational, a negation of the difference between the word and the thing.”
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In Short: 31 Days of Women in Translation
August was Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), and each day on ArabLit, we ran writing about women authors whose work was — or should be — in translation. Here, the 2019 essays, creative writing lists, and more gathered in one place.
Publication Day for ‘Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology’
From the start, he frames Sudan’s poetic landscape as oppositional — African and Arab, Tropical Forest and Desert — or as a dual and twined Afro-Arab tradition.
#TranslateThis: 10 Arab Authors Recommend Books by Women Writers
For the last day of Women in Translation Month, ArabLit contributing editor Sawad Hussain asked Arab authors around the world to recommend their favorite women writers: Ten authors gave nods to […]
‘Blank Bullets’: 2 Poems by Manahel Alsahoui
Dozens of soldiers will love me now
They will shove me onto a bed of blank bullets
Friday Finds: ‘The Memoirs of Cinderella’s Slipper’
“The following day Cinderella had set out in it for a job interview at a company. She’d stormed out of the house, hoping to escape her stepmother’s tyranny by getting a job and leaving home for good.”
The Ruins of the Future: Speculative Fiction in Arabic
“Science fiction is both a mode of engagement and act of resistance by those who are continually cast as alien in their homeland.”
Special Excerpt: ‘Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate’
Saudi Novelist Omaima Al-Khamis’ Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate was winner of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal and also longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: […]
In/for Translation: 5 Arab Women’s Memoirs
Memoirs by women, written in Arabic, recommended by Arab authors, scholars, and publishers.