Huzama Habayeb on the Painful Process of Writing and the Joy of Reading
Yet it was in Kanafani’s Men in the Sun, Habayeb says, that she found what it meant to be a Palestinian. “I cried because of this discovery.”
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Friday Finds: Montasser Al-Qaffash’s ‘Checking out the Apartment’
Not that I was usually punctual, but because the traffic was unexpectedly light along the corniche, flowing so smoothly a passenger in the microbus kept saying, “What’s up?”—unconvinced by any of the answers of the other passengers, commenting on them: “For sure, it’s something else,” without adding a different answer.
10 Iraqi Short Stories for the Shortest Day of the Year
“Good bye, then. You can’t understand my argument. I’m tired of what I have seen and heard from men.”
22 Arab Authors on Their Favorite Reads of 2017
Twenty-two Arab writers share their favorite reads of 2017.
An Excerpt of Khaled Osman’s ‘La Colombe et le Moineau’: ‘The Utter Madness That I’m Witnessing Here’
“These days, he was spending most of his nights glued to the news bulletins reporting on the erupting revolution in Egypt. There was hardly a morning when he managed to get even one or two hours of sleep. It was during one of those rare and fitful moments of rest that the phone rang.”
Mourid Barghouti on Poetry, ‘An Editing of Life’
“Poetry, Barghouti pointed out, is his way to explore and discover ideas, but ideas don’t drive the poem.”
Ahmed El Attar’s ‘Before the Revolution,’ Where ‘Revolution Hangs Silently Over Everything’
” Instead, people have been trying to find ways to approach it from different angles – to sneak up on the revolution from behind.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘World Literature Today’ Translation Prize
The judges will be the editors of World Literature Today magazine, and the winners — in both prose and poetry categories — will each take $200.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Hosts Ninth Nadwa in Abu Dhabi, With New Funder
This year’s participating writers, according to IPAF organizers, range in age from 26 to 40 and come from six different countries: Oman, Sudan, UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine.