Friday Finds: Nazik al-Mala’ika’s ‘To A Girl Sleeping In The Street’
“when the night’s at its peak and the dark’s full of rain,
and the wet silence roils like a fierce hurricane”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Neil Hewison: Shaping a Body of Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
“In these thirty years, Hewison has done perhaps more than any other individual to shape the corpus of Arabic literature in English translation.”
10 Years of Comma Press: 5 Recommended Reads
Today marks 10 years of Comma Press. In celebration, we have five recommended reads.
Mona Kareem Wins Spot in 2018 Emerging Translator Mentorships Programme
Through the program, writers from eight countries, covering twelve languages, will receive mentoring, professional development, and financial assistance.
‘The Whale Swam Past the Stories We Left in the Ocean’
“The child writers are, of course, the most important participants in the project, but in the background were Baree Khalil, a children’s-book author from Syria, and the writing coaches Tomas Jakobsson and Karin Olsson, all three residents in Gävle.”
Al Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story Announces 2017 Longlist
“There were 239 submissions from twenty countries, with the lion’s share coming from Egypt (90), followed by Iraq (20), Jordan (19), Morocco (19), Syria (13), Algeria (11), Saudi (11), Palestine (11), Yemen (9), Sudan (8), Tunisia (8), Bahrain (5), Oman (3), Qatar (3), Lebanon (3), Kuwait (2), Libya (1), Chad (1), Belgium (1), and the UK (1).”
Sunday Submissions: Free, Online Limited-space Writing Workshop with Jennifer Makumbi
“The workshop will be held online over three months, from January to March 2018, and will consist of weekly 3-hour group sessions with the facilitator by video conference. “
What Arabic Children’s Literature Needs, And How to Bring the Best Into Translation
Today is the last day of World Kid Lit Month (#WorldKidLit) as well as International Translation Day (#ITD2017). Here, we bring together a few of the issues facing Arabic children’s literature and make suggestions for a start at bringing the best of Arabic children’s literature into English.
Friday Finds: Watch Two Talks About Cartoonists, in Egypt and Libya
In the last ten days, there have been two big talks about comics and cartoonists, one by Libyan poet-translator-media mogul-doctor-blogger Ghazi Gheblawi, in London, and the other by author-artist-scholar-blogger Jonathan Guyer at Harvard.