Literary Playlist: Selim Batti’s ‘I’m Not Leaving My House’
“You will find many Fairuz songs in the playlist, which details the progression of the complex ideas and emotions evoked in the novel.”
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‘African Titanics’ and a New Literature of Immigration
“At any rate, the continuing launch of books at the fair proves the importance of printed material in today’s world, where the image and electronic media seem so dominant. This year, the list of newly published books give a sense of the ascendancy of writing and publishing on the Sudanese cultural scene.”
Sunday Submissions: Poetry Collection for Orison Books
Orison Books is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts — a minimum of 60 pages — in English translation through the end of this month.
The American Soldier in Arab Novels
Blasim further said, in an interview for Barnes & Noble, that he didn’t write about Americans, and indeed “deliberately ignored stories of American soldiers, the kind that appear in Iraqi and American literature and art, either as heroes, victims, or criminals.”
5 Titles to Start the Mo Salah Book Club
“It was July 5 when the Egyptian football superhero tweeted a photo of himself reading the book, and, according to Akhbar al-Yom, sales have not slackened since.”
Unreckoned: Experimental Translations of Ibn Arabi
Moger described the distinctive approach they took to translating Ibn Arabi, attempting to treat each poem as an individual text without embedding it in a scholarly apparatus.
Arabic Speculative Fiction at the New York Public Library
” I think there’s a growing curiosity about Arabic literature amongst English-language readers in the U.S., and I wanted to teach this class in order to give New York readers a community in which to explore that together.”
James Montgomery on When ‘All Poets Were Warriors’
“In other words, it’s important to welcome and embrace the uncertainties rather than to dismiss them[.]”
60 Arabic Stories in Malayalam Translation
Qudsi noted that, “You find nearly a dozen Malayalam publishers in the international book exhibition centers of Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.” He said he has “no doubt that Malayalam bookselling [finds] a profitable market in the Gulf book fairs.”