Charif Majdalani’s ‘Moving the Palace’ Makes 2018 NTA Longlist
“No Arabic books made the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose, organized by the American Literary Translators Association.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Entirely Genuine and In No Way Conventional: Muhammad al-Tunisi’s ‘In Darfur’
“Al-Tūnisī was the only Arab and Muslim to reside in and write an account of the Sultanate of Darfur.”
Sunday Submissions: Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship
“This scholarship is open to Palestinian-American youth and Palestinian youth residing in the US, ages 18-25.”
The 2 Arab Writers Up for the Alt Literary Nobel
“It is a sort of world literature where the world is tightly focused on how the literary arts — mostly the novel — lives and breathes in Swedish and English, and, to a lesser extent, French.”
Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘Shatila Stories’
“Chaos everywhere. Thundering sounds rip through my ears. I blink and blink again. I take snapshots with my eyes. Racing feet, dragging feet; old people, young people; cars of different colours, of different shapes; grey sky, swaying trees.”
4 Different Covers for ‘In the Sabaya Market’
Which is the “right” cover for Dunya Mikhail’s “In the Slave Market”?
Excellent & Idiosyncratic Lebanese Stories on WWB
This month’s issue of Words Without Borders is called “Turning the Kaleidoscope: Writing from Lebanon” and was co-edited by Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Albert.
Review: ‘Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature’
By reading Ashour’s work, the author remarks that “conspiracism, or waswasa, alerts us to lurking dangers, but it also constitutes a danger in and of itself.”
Crossing Cultures: A 19th Century Egyptian Story of Darfur
“[D]ull would s/he be of soul who could resist a country where one of the chief officers of state bore the title of the Sultan’s Buttocks (his military formation brought up the rear when the army was on the march) and where the court jester was also ‘the Keeper of the Sultan’s Anger,’ i.e., was the executioner.”