Launching Today: ‘Palestine +100’
“Ze’ev puts me on display in front of the schoolkids in the playground for half an hour. None of them have ever seen a Palestinian before.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Dunya Mikhail: ‘Writing It Twice Is My New Original’
“In the beginning, it was an annoying experience, because the poems pulled me right and left (as Arabic and English are written in opposite directions, you know), but when I let them work freely with each other (like a democrat), they actually benefited from each other.”
Sunday Submissions: Propose an ‘Anomaly’ Folio
“Anomaly” is an international literary journal focused most particularly on “especially innovative and experimental literature and arts[.]”
Launching Manara: a ‘MENA Theatre Invasion of the United Kingdom’
“One strand of our work in the future will be to create an archive of Classical Arabic plays in translation, so we will be seeking funding to get some of the plays that don’t yet exist in English translation.”
Friday Finds: Versions of ‘Poem Six,’ Ibn Arabi’s ‘Interpreter of Desires’
“No more standing it / Or bearing now / They are no more. / Are no more here / Yet they stand in the dim hall still of your heart.”
Webcomics and the Art of Translating Tamer Hosny Lyrics
Throughout the workshop, she emphasized that the language one writes in matters, because it makes an immediate claim about audience: “It’s not that I was bothered by translation so much as that it’s stuff that’s not meant for you . . . I didn’t want to be giving [Egyptians] secondhand content.”
Short Story Original: Hilal Chouman’s ‘World of Dogs’
“He keeps walking. The buildings, rubble, and garbage around him duplicate and multiply.”
How To: Translating Comix from Arabic
For a time, she said, she stopped doing the web comic because there was no way to be honest and keep it open.
On Publication Day: Are the ‘Lost’ Mahfouz Stories Worth Reading?
“We can’t know what Mahfouz intended to do with the fictions collected into ‘The Quarter’. He might have considered them complete and ready for publication, or they might have been the seeds of a new novel.”