Banipal Translation Prize Announces Four-book Shortlist
The 2018 winner is expected to be announced in late January, 2019.
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5 Books: Remembering Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
In Baghdad, Jabra crafted both novels and poems, first composing in English and later shifting into Arabic.
Sunday Submissions: The Käpylä Translation Prize
Happily, there is no entry fee.
2018 Zayed Book Award Longlist in ‘Young Author’ Category
The winner will take 750,000 dirhams, or around $204,000 US.
Friday Finds: ‘Important Announcement’
Upsidedownistan here.
Your sweet ole radio station.
Announcing Dearborn Comics Workshop and the New ‘Maamoul Press’
The workshop will also mark the launch of small-press publishing house Maamoul Press, born out of Bigmouth Press & Comix.
Egyptian Horror & Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi’s ‘Hour of the Wolf’
“Then I surrendered to sleep, asking God to shelter me from the devil.”
Diaa Jubaili Wins 2018 Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story
According to the judges, the ‘No Windmills in Basra’ combined realism and fantasy in its often satiric depictions of war that includes stories set during “the Iraq-Iran war, the Gulf War, and the waves of extremism that engulf Iraq to this day.”
Ruba Abughaida on Self-translating: ‘I Become Another Version of Myself’
“But Arabic was always sitting on my shoulder whispering at first and then becoming progressively louder[.]”