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.”
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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.”
Review: The Intertwined Histories of Arab Science and Arabic SFF
“In the introduction to his science-fiction novel ‘Flight into Space,’ the Egyptian journalist Husayn Qadri wrote that ‘men like us’ set their feet on the moon. ‘It does not matter, whether their names are John, Peter, Shatalov, Mustafa or Hasan.’”
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Comics and Comix
“I started to ask myself the following questions: How might iconic images circulate between the page and other public contexts such as graffiti, calligraffiti, and the iconography of protest and resistance? What is the role of leitmotifs and repetition at the intersection of text and image?”
Sunday Submissions: Be a ‘Recommended Translation’
Publishers who have a translated collection of poetry forthcoming in October, November, or December 2018 can apply to be a “Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.”
Ramadan TV 2018: Based on Short Story, Poetry
“In the story, one of Mahfouz’s early works, a woman marries a man who’s sex-obsessed.”
Friday Finds: English PEN Launches Zine for International Writing
The new zine, called PEN Transmissions, promises to feature a new themed issue each month, “featuring original writing and interviews” from around the world.
Lebanese Censors Demand Shutdown of Reading, Then Beirut Pride
“It is worth mentioning that the censorship pass is the approval of the censorship bureau at the General Security of any show, from which are exempted text readings.”
Belonging to Human Time: A Syrian Contribution to Arab Poetics
“Syrian poets opened crossings and paved paths, molded styles and discovered untouched poetic terrains in Arab poetics. Had we omitted three of them: Adonis, Muhammad al-Maghut and Nizar Qabbani, Arabic poetry would have probably looked very different today.”