5 Books: Recommendations from Bothayna al-Essa
Bothayna Al-Essa — the founder of Takween, a platform for creative writing, a publishing house, and a bookshop — recommended five of her favorite books.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
In/for Translation: 7 Arab Women Writing Prison
“Absent, however, were the stories and experiences of women prisoners of conscience.”
On Raja Alem’s ‘Sarab’ & Translating an Arabic Book Not Published in Arabic
“I was honoured to work on this for many reasons, but I have to say that Raja’s process of not publishing the Arabic first really felt like a mark of faith in what translators can do, and recognition of the different value they can bring to a text.”
Classics, Revisited: Zaynab Fawwaz
“I have not observed anyone who has gone to extremes and set aside a single chapter in the Arabic language for half the human world, in which is brought together those women who were famed for their merits and who shunned bad qualities, even though a group of these women has excelled, having writings to their names with which they have rivaled the greatest learned men and engaged in poetic competition with the master poets.”
Reclaiming the Women of Arabic Popular Epics
This look at the women who seem to have disappeared in scholarship about the Arabic popular epics is a re-run from Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) last year.
Friday Finds: Raghad al-Suheil’s ‘Rabbits of Baghdad’
“The rabbit hopped inside. The kicking started. Both were yelling.”
Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
Each Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit selects 10 Arabic short stories by women, in translation, online.
Hend Ja’far: Short Storycraft and Reading the Obituaries in Egypt
“It’s a vicious cycle, but if I were a publisher, I think I would bet on popular, low-cost, low-quality editions. That way, fraud would no longer be profitable for them.”
In/for Translation: 7 Graphic Novels by Arab Women
Seven graphic novels by Arab women that have been translated, would be fun in translation, and/or will soon be available in English translation.