Bulaq 16: Choose Your Team
“We spent some time with the collection Marrakech Noir, ed. Yassin Adnan, which is coming out from Akashic Books in August.”
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Sunday Submissions: ‘Nimrod’ Seeking MENA Stories, Poems
“With this issue, we seek to celebrate writers and writing from this region, to highlight the diverse cultures and people within it, and to enrich and add complexity to the representation and understanding of the Middle East and North Africa.”
Bushra al-Fadil on Writing ‘Something Similar to’ Sci Fi
“Now I’m trying to write, in my latest works, science fiction — or something similar to science fiction. I can’t write science fiction, because science fiction should be known to people who are living in countries where there is industries, developed, and so on. But I write something similar to it[.]”
6 New Summer Reads for Beach, Protest, or Plane
Six new releases to read this summer.
Apply: Postdoc in Palestinian Literature
“PalREAD will seek to map and trace the development of Palestinian literature from 1948 to the present, with a focus on Arabic-language literary sources published across the Arab world, in Europe and North America.”
Baghdad Announces Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri Museum
“According to Al-Monitor, the museum will likely be opened next year, on or around the 120th anniversary of Jawahiri’s birth.”
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Survey of Arab-Islamic Civilization’
“When I offer it again—hopefully next spring—I would like to make room as well for popular literature, bringing in selections from 1001 Nights and passages from Remke Kruk’s The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature (2014).”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Close Approximations’ Prize
Each category will have a winner and two runners-up, who will win (respectively) $1,000 USD and $250 USD worth of prizes.
Poet Galal El-Behairy’s ‘Letter from Tora Prison’
They want to hide the past
behind locks and bolts,
preventing him from whispering
about how things once were.