9 in 2018: Best of New Translated Arabic Lit by Women
As Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) opens, we list nine of the best women’s works translated from Arabic to English and published in 2018.
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Dareen Tatour Sentenced to 5 Months; Create Art To Help Fight Her Conviction
“With your agreement we intend to curate a digital-only album of submissions, to be made available for sale on several platforms.”
14th-Century Cookbook ‘Profoundly Rich Resource for Egyptian Culinary Heritage’
“Our anonymous author was most probably a gourmet cook himself but not necessarily a professional cook. He might have had a profession like those people to support his family, and wrote about cooking, his passion.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘New Poetry in Translation’
“We accept poetry translations (including prose poems) from any language and any time period.”
America Through Radwa’s Eyes: ‘The Journey’
“Although I for one had to read up on the teen guru of the Divine Light Movement to see if Radwa was having me on. (She wasn’t.)”
Friday Finds: Zeina Hashem Beck’s Bilingual ‘Duets’
But for non-Arabic readers of The Lifted Brow, there’s also no “need” to have the Arabic. You could hear one melody, without the other, and that too could be a privileged mode of reading.
‘The Responsibility of Translating Other Poets’
“One clear change since 2003 has been in the themes taken up by Iraqi poets and novelists and, indeed, by artists generally.”
‘A Confession,’ by Tunisian Poet Sami Messelmani
“their bright lights
infect me with an intellectual insomnia
shrinking my soul,
and blinding my eyes,”
Call for Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly
The inaugural issue is loosely themed BEGINNINGS.