5 from Gazan Writer Atef Abu Saif
“Are you still living there?” he asks.
“Where else should I live?” I answer.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Mansoura Ez Eldin’s ‘Shadow Specters,’ Between History and Imagination
The novel’s ostensible starting point is a comparative narration in two dimensions: the physical space between Cairo and Prague, and the psychic space between the main characters (Adam, Camelia, others).
Kuwaiti Writer Bothayna al-Essa on Finding Her Voice in the Morgue
“The only idea that seemed reasonable, at the time, was to visit the morgue and sit among the bodies[.]”
Sunday Submissions: ArabLit Story Prize
This is a reminder that there is no minimum word count, and that flash and microfiction are particularly welcome.
The Notorious Ghalib Halasa
Two men sat near the round threshing floor in the western fields. Each with his rifle on his lap.
Friday Finds: Muhammad al-Tunisi’s 19th-c. Account of Darfur
“No manuscript copy of the work exists. Its earliest recension is a lithographic edition, in the hand of Nicolas Perron, the author’s institutional superior and student, published in Paris in 1850.”
Arab Authors, Publishers Reportedly Stopped from Entering Palestine for Book Fair
The association said the Palestinian Authority has always submitted entry permits for publishers so they can attend the annual book fair and that they “have been always accepted except for this time.”
Haitham Hussein’s Letter to Agatha Christie: ‘Are You Happy Here?’
In your book, you wrote about that part of the world called the Middle East: “This is a simple and, I think, consequently a happy part of the world.”
Jordanian Novelist Jamal Naji, 1954-2018
“His novel ‘When the Wolves Grow Old’ was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2010.”