Poetry in Translation by Fadwa Suleiman
“I’m sitting alone in my room / my clothes scattered around me”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Alaa Alqaisi and What Caution Cannot Do
Today is the Dublin launch of ArabLit contributor Alaa Alqaisi’s The Thin Border: Living in Extra Time. It is available through Skein Press.
Texts After the Screaming
Nour Balousha wrote these two poems “after I stopped screaming, not because it ended, but because I grew too exhausted to keep screaming.”
Samar Yazbek, Karim Kattan on National Book Award Longlist
Yesterday, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Classic Short Fiction from Tunisia: ‘Hajj Zayan’
Mostafa Khraïef (1910-1967) was a prominent Tunisian poet, writer, and journalist.
University of Edinburgh Welcomes Raja Shehadeh Archive
Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine has arrived for safekeeping at two universities in the United Kingdom
Arabic Literature for Young Readers: 10 Publishers to Know
As a way of marking #WorldKidLitMonth, we are refreshing this profile of 10 publishers that have a focus on children’s literature in Arabic.
On Music, Memory, and Damascus
“Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space.”
On Shaping ‘The Book of Damascus’
The Book of Damascus, ed. Zaher Omareen, is a new anthology in their “Reading the City” series. Here, editor Zaher Omareen talks with Fifi Bat-hef about selecting ten stories to represent a city as complex and storied as Damascus.