An Excerpt from Ibrahim Nasrallah’s IPAF-winning ‘Dog War II’: ‘Fangs and Claws’
“The driver went quiet for a while then asked, ‘Do you think there’ll be another war?’”
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Five Things You Need to Know About 11th IPAF Winner ‘Dog War II’
‘Dog War II’s’ IPAF win “has gotten relatively wide coverage in the English press—certainly more than most IPAF winners hitherto—largely because its keywords hit so many hot-topic buttons, with ‘dystopia,’ ‘sci-fi,’ ‘extremism,’ and ‘Arab world’ emerging as the most popular thus far.”
Friday Finds: ‘The Village Idiot,’ by Majidah al-Outoum
“We awoke one morning to news of a death. The person we had lost was the one we used to call the Village Idiot—that buffoon who used to make us laugh and cry at the same time, that leaping, dancing ball of energy who would hurl himself around, wild with enthusiasm, stomping on our toes and crashing into us as he went gesticulating by.”
‘But What About Fidelity?’: Moving Beyond Translation’s ‘Christian Metaphysics’
“But what about fidelity? What about faithfulness to the original? Those who want to talk about faith are welcome to, but to do so returns us needlessly to a world of Christian metaphysics. Let us talk about works, not faith.”
Why Raja Alem is Publishing ‘Sarab’ in Translation Before She Publishes in Arabic
“Arabic is my center. I am very sensitive to the words, and up until now I cannot find the right words to capture this story, this wound. I feel I need to rewrite this book in some new Arabic, after taking a distance.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘The Second War of the Dog’ Wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“Ibrahim Nasrallah’s novel paints a chilling picture of humanity in all its destructive potential.”
Announcement Today: Winner of 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“The winner of the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction is set to be announced at a ceremony at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi this evening.”
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: At the American University in Cairo
“Bilingualism in Arabic/English at the department of English and Comparative Literature at AUC is certainly a distinctive case.”
Sunday Submissions: Transference Literary Journal Open for Submissions
Transference — a magazine dedicated to poetry in translation — is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University.