From the KITCHEN: ‘Teita’s Bitter Orange Jam’
We are around 25% of the way toward our goal with our summer “Buy a Back Issue” campaign. This essay, by Egyptian author and food scholar Salma Serry, appeared in KITCHEN issue of the magazine.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
New Poetry in Translation: Baraa’h Qandeel’s ‘Suffocation’
Baraa’h Qandeel is one of the 16 emerging literary translators accepted to our Summer 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Workshop, supported by Palestine Writes. Here, she translates one of her own poems.
Classic Short Fiction: Mahmoud al-Badawi’s ‘The Peddler’
Critic Sabry Hafez writes, in the Journal of Arabic Literature, that, “Amongst the men of letters of his generation, Mahmud Al-Badawi (b. 1911) stands as a lone and unique literary figure. He spent his literary life away from the limelight of public fame despite his substantial contribution to the development of Egyptian literature.”
New Poetry in Translation: ‘My Neck Against a Wall’
“Dust / devours me, / embracing my breathless lungs, / reading the glint in my ambiguous eyes.”
Armed with October: Thawra and Poetry, from Khartoum to Toronto
Here, Khaldah Salih and Fathima Cader interweave a translation of “October Al Akhdar” with their reflections on the lessons that historic and ongoing struggle in Sudan provide for liberation struggles everywhere.
Poetry from Michrafy Abdelwadoud: ‘Cat Love’
We are a little more than 20% of the way toward our goal with our summer “Buy a Back Issue” campaign. This poem, by Moroccan poet Michrafy Abdelwadoud, appeared in CATS issue of the magazine; you can support the campaign by buying a copy of this or other back issues or backlist books, available now through ArabLit.org/Shop.
On Alfeñique and Caring for the Dead
This essay is from the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
Classic Short Fiction: ‘The Irony of the Flute’
As Hilary Kilpatrick wrote in The Journal of Arabic Literature, “Mahmud Tahir Lashin is one of those Egyptian writers who, pioneers in their own time, never achieved wide popularity and were soon forgotten. Yet his short stories reveal an original and accomplished artistry, and his novel, Hawwa’ bila Adam, is one of the most interesting works of fiction to have been published in Cairo during the 1930’s.”
‘Birthday in a Cellar’: New Short Fiction
“Birthday in a Cellar” appears in Amer Al-Masry’s third short-story collection, The Man Who Turned Back (الرجل الذي التفت إلى الوراء), the first book out from the new Gaza Publications.