Bensalem Himmich Memoir Takes 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced their roster of 2019 winners in five categories.
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‘A Giant Multi-room Museum Piece’: Ibrahim al-Koni’s ‘The Fetishists’
“Yet if al-Koniʹs shorter ‘Bleeding of the Stone’ and ‘Gold Dust’ are small paintings you can hang on a living-room wall, then The Fetishists is a giant multi-room museum piece.”
Friday Finds: Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, Alaa Hlehel
The relatively new “Short Story Project” has already published several translations from Arabic, including works by Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, and Alaa Hlehel.
Submissions to 2019 ArabLit Story Prize Open at Midnight
Submissions to the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize will open as we cross the threshold between March 14 and 15.
Two Arabic Titles on Man Booker International Longlist
Two of the thirteen books chosen for the 2019 Man Booker International longlist are translations from Arabic, on a longlist dominated by smaller and independent publishers.
On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
The towering, generation-defining Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was born on this day in al-Birwa.
New Library-recommendation Project: 10 from Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg
For these lists-of-ten, ArabLit is interviewing scholars, critics, and translators, and other bibliocentrics about the Arabic Literature in translation they would recommend for US’s public libraries.
The Microfictions of Sudanese Writer Fatima As-Sanoussi
As-Sanoussi’s stories had wide influence on Sudan’s ‘80s generation writers, who found inspiration and guidance in her condensed artistic practice.
The Frame, The Sausage, The Oil: Humor and Politics in Algeria’s Protests
Hundreds of tongue-in-cheek messages were shared on social media on March 8. To record this historic day in Algerian politics and in the renewal of Algeria’s social fabric, I have gathered a number of March 8 banners shared on Twitter and Facebook.