It’s Pub Day for Ahmed Naji and Ayman Al Zorkany’s Blood-pressure-raising ‘Using Life’
Today, the book at the center of the case officially appears in Ben Koerber’s translation, published by University of Texas Press.
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Sunday Submissions: $20,000 for 100-word Story in English, Arabic, Spanish, or Hebrew
There will be one main prize, of $20,000 US, and three prizes of $1,000 each for the best stories in each of the remaining three languages.
Kareem James Abu-Zeid Wins NEA Translation Fellowship To Support Retranslation of ‘Hanging Poems’
“Unlike much older translations of this work,” the award citation says, “this new translation will be more poetic and accessible. Each poem will be contextualized with a brief introduction.”
Friday Finds: ‘The Strange Case of the Arabic Whodunnit’
In this hardboiled half-hour show, Guyer focuses on the role of the noir novel in Cairo, taking us from “The Three Apples” of The Thousand and One Nights to what Guyer calls the “neo noir” film The Nile Hilton Incident, the screening of which was recently prevented in Egypt.
Book Launches: ‘A Blade of Grass,’ ‘Louder than Hearts,’ ‘All the Battles’
A Blade of Grass — a bilingual anthology that brings together new work by poets from “the Palestinian territories, from the diaspora, and from within the disputed borders of Israel” — was partially funded by a research grant from the University of Chichester and partially by a successful crowdfunding campaign. Together, they enabled two donations of £240 to be made to the legal campaigns of Palestinian poets Ashraf Fayadh (jailed in Saudi Arabia) and Dareen Tatour (jailed in Israel).
It’s Pub Day for Ghayath Almadhoun’s Acerbic, Relentless ‘Adrenaline’
“Massacre is a dead metaphor that is eating my friends, eating them without salt.”
Marcela de Aguinaga Quiroz Wins Concurso 1×1 for Arabic-Spanish Translation
The third, he said, is a little more complex, “yet easy to detect; I also disqualified the translations that ‘Orientalize’ the poem.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2017 Longlist, Features Work by a Mauritanian Novelist for the First Time
“One longlisted work, Dunya Mikhail’s Fi Souq al-Sabaya, is already set to appear in English translation in March 2018 from New Directions, as The Beekeeper.”
ArabLit Recommends: A Crowdfunding Campaign for ‘Shatila Stories’
“This summer nine inhabitants answered Peirene’s call for writers to respond to their situation with a collaborative piece of fiction. The result is Shatila Stories.”