Four Libyan Women Writers You Should Read
For Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we take you on a tour of work by four Libyan women writers. For more on the Libyan literary scene, visit ArabLit’s June 2026 […]
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Women Recommending Women: Favorite Book Spaces
To mark Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit’s Meriem Essaoudy talked with women who write in Arabic around the world, asking them to recommend favorite contemporary and classic books by women, remarkable women in publishing, and also favorite women-run book spaces.
Publication Day: ‘Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life’
It’s publication day for the US edition of Samar Yazbek’s Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, translated to English by Leri Price. To mark the day, we have a link to an excerpt from the book, a conversation about the book between Samar and Olivia Snaije, a review by editor Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, and a conversation about the translation process between contributor Tugrul Mende and translator Leri Price.
Fallible Men vs Safynaz Kazem
This originally ran in the 2020 ROAD issue of ArabLit Quarterly and appears here for Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), as this year, we’re focusing on underappreciated classics in Arabic by women. And, as Hadil Ghoneim writes below, the gifted and sometimes frightening Kazem was “overshadowed, banned, and deliberately ignored.” Here, we remember her path-breaking work.
‘By Candlelight’: Short Fiction by Latifa al-Zayyat
Part of our focus, this Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), is on classic Arabic works by women, especially those at the margins of (or neglected entirely by) critical and readerly attention.
Five Novels: A Masterclass in Palestinian Literature for Teens
We recommend these five books as the anchors of a class in Palestinian literature and translation for teen readers.
Poems of Whiskey and Regret by Rasha Omran
These poems, translated by Phoebe Carter, are from Rasha Omran’s sixth collection, “A Secret Wife of Absence.”
Beyond the Workshop: How a Writing Community Was Born
Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi explores the creation of a community of writers in Gaza under genocide.
From Zainab Hifni’s ‘I Was Here Yesterday’
‘I Was Here Yesterday; is set between Saudi Arabia and the Florida coast and entangles grief and memory, centering on how the narrator grapples with her mother’s death and the truths about her mother’s life—and her own—that she uncovers.