Friday Finds: 12 Poems by Nabilah al-Zubair
I will say that I am your lover (just saying)
You will say to me: my love (just a word)
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An Excerpt of Sherif Abdel Samad’s ‘Chekhov and the Lady with the Chihuahua’
“Chekhov eventually travels with the sisters to Cairo, where demonstrations against the Khedive are taking place, and where he finds himself embroiled in mayhem.”
2019 IWP Residents Include Soukaina Habiballah, Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah
This year, two IWP residents come from neighboring Maghrebi nations.
Award-winning Film ‘You Will Die at Twenty,’ Based on Hammour Ziada Story
“A while ago, Sudanese film director Amjad Abu Alala, who is a friend of mine, approached me and told me that he wanted to adapt a story I wrote years ago into a film. It was about a Sudanese boy, born in a simple Sudanese village, and a prophecy that foresees his death when he turns 20.”
Call for Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly’s Fall/Winter 2019 Issue, ‘The Eye’
We prefer pitches to completed works; pitches should be in by October 15, with drafts submitted by November 1, and authors available to work on edits in the month of November.
Sunday Submissions: Asymptote’s Special Feature on International Microfiction
They are, they write, “looking for the best unpublished translations (into English) under 1,000 words.”
Kaouther Adimi’s ‘Our Riches,’ Forthcoming April 2020
The New Directions edition, in Andrews’ translation, is currently set for an April 28, 2020 release.
Friday Finds: Excerpt of Youssef Fadel’s ‘A Shimmering Red Fish’
“The man is stretched out on his bed. He’d rather not know who the woman is whose body is underneath it.”
Ahmed Salah al-Mahdi’s ‘The Enchanted Treasure’
“And how,” Safwan asked sarcastically, “would a simple fisherman come to have a treasure?”