3 for ‘Poem in Your Pocket Day’ 2019
Each poem I read
a jewel
looted from the world.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Egyptian Publisher Khaled Lufti Shortlisted for 2019 Prix Voltaire
The Prix Voltaire, according to organizers, “rewards exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish and in enabling others to exercise their right to freedom of expression.”
Shady Lewis Botros: ‘Fiction Puts the Author in a Less Vulnerable Position’
“It is probably not a coincidence that ‘Turuq al-Rab’ is written as a series of confessions to a priest.”
Blogging From Egypt: ‘Light a Candle, Even If It Is Weak’
Critics like al-Ghitani said that, “bloggers were tainting Arabic literary production by writing books in poor language, and ‘they even express ideas making fun of language’.“
Sunday Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly’s Summer 2019 Issue, ‘The Sea’
We’re interested both in the many connotations of sea in English (a sea of faces; ancient sea creatures; she sells sea shells by the sea shore) and بحر in Arabic (as body of water and poetic meter).
On 209 Submissions for 2019 AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story
According to organizers, 209 eligible collections were submitted to the prize, with the most (80) coming from Egypt.
Friday Finds: An Excerpt of Ibrahim Abdel Meguid’s ‘Clouds over Alexandria’
“The film ‘The Summons,’ based on the novel by Yusuf Idris, was being shown at the Cinema Rivoli in Cairo and Cinema Radio in Alexandria, while the Cinema Royale in Alexandria was showing ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ which had been preceded by the fame of the actor Jack Nicholson, and of course of the producer, Miloš Forman.”
Ahmed Bouanani’s ‘The Hospital’ Makes BTBA Longlist
No book translated from the Arabic made either the poetry or fiction longlists of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award (BTBA), announced yesterday.
Protecting Recollections in ‘The Memory Factory’
“Arab and Western readers are different in what they’re cautious about in the book. Arabs have been anxious about how the book talks about the girl’s sexual identity, alongside her social and political identity, while Westerners have been anxious about how war and suffering might affect young readers.”