‘Whose Doll Is It?’ Read from an Etisalat Award Winner
Taghreed Najjar’s Whose Doll Is This?, winner of 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the “Young Adult” category, is, Hend Saeed writes, the book you’ve been waiting to read.
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Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’
To celebrate, the CTS is launching an anthology of essays built around lectures delivered at the center over the past ten years, titled In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, edited by Samia Mehrez.
No Award in 2019: Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
“With plans for the future of the award already in motion, the decision has been made not to announce a winner for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature this year.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Shenandoah’ Seeks Translations
Shenandoah: “We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.”
Bulaq 38: ‘Insufficiently Westernized’
In Bulaq Episode 38, we discussed a picaresque, surprisingly joyful tale set in an evacuated village during the Iran-Iraq war; the TV adaption Elliott Colla’s Baghdad Noir; and the evolution — or partial evolution, anyhow — of reviews of Arabic literature in translation.
Palestinian Playwright Dalia Taha Wins Royal Court Theatre Commission
“I think that Palestine has done a lot more for British theatre practitioners than we could ever do for them.”
Friday Finds: ‘Ode to Lebanon’
The video was taken on October 19, when Hashem Beck read at the Rugby Tavern in London as part of the London launch of her Laureate’s Choice Anthology: There Was and How Much There Was.
Eight Translations of Two Lines by Mutanabbi
“Night has my back. I stay. / My exit cue: the white / Betrayer, day.”
Mohammed Abdelnabi Wins 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
Egyptian novelist Mohammed Abdelnabi has won the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe for his International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel La Chambre de l’araignée, as translated from Arabic by Gilles Gauthier.