Friday Finds: 21 Short Stories for 2019’s Longest Day
Twenty-one translated stories from twelve countries — available free online — for your midsummer, 2019.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Arabic ‘Summer Bookshop’ Opens in Brussels
“Brussels’ first international cookstore café with Arab identity, a place for literature, music, art, film, events & public conversations.”
A Talk about Sudanese Short Stories and ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
“There are many writers whose short stories I enjoy. For example, the South Sudanese writer Stella Gaitano, as well as Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin and Mansour Suwaim. Also Mohsen Khalid—although he hasn’t written for a while.”
The Tyranny of ‘True Stories’: Iman Yehia’s ‘The Mexican Wife’
“Iman Yehia’s novel, The Mexican Wife, turns into a literary whodunit, propelled by a quest for the truth about Yusuf Idris’ past.”
Penguin Classics vs. the World
Many literatures are underrepresented — India has only eight authors; Turkey has one; China gets short shrift with 12 — but there is nothing quite as strange as the seats at the back of the classics created for “Africa” and “The Arab World.”
On Bloomsday: Reading ‘Ulysses’ in Arabic
“So to protect my health, I said let me go and do something very difficult and forget about all the wars and killings. (…) I decided to go for Ulysses.”
Against Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in
“Tents with long desks full of books at either side served as public libraries, where readers had access to banned books, including the books of Fathi-al-Daw and the novels of A. Baraka Sakin, which were once traded secretly in the country.”
Saturday Submissions: Translations of Poetry on Extinction
The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2019.
Friday Finds: 1926-33 Archives of Humor Mag ‘Al-Fukaha’
The University of Bonn has posted eight years of archives of the humor magazine al-Fukaha, published in Egypt by Dar al-Hilal.