Arab Authors’ Favorites 2018: The List
Fourteen Arab authors share their favorite Arabic reads of the year.
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43 Books of the Year: Arabic to English in 2018
There have been at least 43 Arabic-to-English translations published this year.
Future-focused ‘Palestine +100’ Wins PEN Translates Award
The collection, edited by Basma Ghalayini, promises to feature stories from a range of writers, including: Talal Abu Shawish, Awad Saud Awad, Liana Badr, Ramzy Baroud, Selma Dabbagh, Samir El-Youssef, Anwar Hamed, Mazen Maarouf, Ahmed Masoud, Nayrouz Qarmout, and Rawan Yaghi.
December 18: ‘Read Arabic Day’
December 18 is “UN Arabic Language Day.”
Art, the Law, and Dareen Tatour
Over the weekend, her photo exhibition “I, Prisoner No. 9022438” opened at the Arabic-Hebrew Saraya Theater in Jaffa.
Sunday Submissions: Banff International Literary Translation Centre
The period of the residency is June 3 – 22, 2019, and it includes work sessions with consulting translators.
Book Review: Samir Naqqash’s ‘Tenants & Cobwebs’
This novel – Naqqash’s first – was published in Arabic in 1986, and draws on the author’s own life experiences. His family fled Iraq in 1951 when he was just 13. Unlike most other writers who left Baghdad’s once-thriving Jewish community for Israel, Naqqash continued to write in Arabic until his death in 2004.
Friday Finds: ‘Birds / Have No Hands’
BIRDS
have no hands.
They don’t expect a crutch
in old age
Winners of $2m Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation Announced in Doha
First prize went to Nawal Nasrallah for her informative and elegant translation of the fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook “Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table,” author unknown.