‘Footnotes in Order of Disappearance’: A Collaboration of Poems
“The proportion of ‘original work’ per author varies from poem to poem.”
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See: ‘Echoes of Naguib Mahfouz’ Art Exhibition
“The tarboush as male headgear is now an historical relic. But what about its symbolic force of national and patriarchal privilege? The artist makes us ponder whether this privilege has gone with the tarboush itself as he ushers us into disquieting yet intriguing spaces. Disruptions and continuities haunt the pinpricks of his Qarboush.”
Sinan Antoon: ‘Novels Can Narrate an Alternative History’
“I am interested in how we always think of barbarism as something that is far away.”
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Spotify Your Syllabus
As scholars, we know that Arabic literary production has a long, prolific, and varied history that exists not only within a wide range of texts but also in culture and memory; however, many of our students do not begin with that assumption.
Sunday Submissions: ‘World’s Best-endowed Literary Translation Award’
There are seven language pairs in play, with each winner earning $100,000 or $200,000.
Radwa Ashour Day: 9 to Read and 1 to Translate
“Radwa Ashour was a powerful voice among Egyptian writers of the postwar generation and a writer of exceptional integrity and courage. Her work consistently engages with her country’s history and reflects passionately upon it.”
Friday Finds: ‘Everything in You Grew, But Not Your Hand’
Your rude fist wrapped it round
And clung.
BBC’s ‘100 Most Influential Stories’: From the 1001 to Mahfouz
In April, BBC Culture asked writers, critics, and scholars to nominate up to five fictional stories they felt “had shaped mindsets or influenced history.”
The Growing Popularity of Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation
“Arabic literature in translation courses are also enabled by a new, fast-growing body of Arabic literature in English translation that can trace its rapid upswing to September 2001.”