PalFest 2017 Opens May 13: Featuring Ma’n Abu Taleb, Nadeem Aslam, Jelani Cobb, Solmaz Sharif, More
In an email newsletter, PalFest organizers said: “PalFest is unable to get to Gaza because of Israel and Egypt’s ongoing siege of the Strip.”
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Coming in August: Mazen Kerbaj’s ‘Beirut Won’t Cry,’ Finally in English
“I am very happy that it is Fantagraphics, one of my favorite publishers in the world, that is putting it out, with an introduction by the specialist of comics, wars, Arabs and Israelis: Mr. Joe Sacco.”
‘We the Aliens,’ ‘Nakba + 100,’ and Palestinian Science Fictions
Comma Press’s forthcoming anthology ‘Nakba + 100’ will — in the style of its ‘Iraq + 100’ anthology, feature “ten stories all set in the year 2048, a century after the ‘catastrophe’ now known as the ‘Nakba’.”
An Excerpt from Mansoura Ez Eldin’s ‘Emerald Mountain’
“Cairo was my final stop, where I would find what I was looking for. Cairo, where—thirty-two years after I bade him goodbye—I sit, knitting words together, weaving together the tale missing from the Thousand and One Nights.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Transference’ Seeks Translated Arabic Poems for Fall 2017 Issue
“Along with the translated poem(s), translators should also submit a commentary on the translation process, addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices.”
The Story of ‘Ahmed and Aziz’ in a New French Novel, ‘The Orange Grove’
“Reading ‘The Orange Grove’ with my journalist’s eye, I am tempted to pick fault with it[.]”
Friday Finds: ‘Arabic Readers Are Devouring’ Books Translated from Chinese?
“Arabic readers are devouring autobiographies by Chinese entrepreneurs like Robin Li, Jack Ma, Pony Ma and Ren Zhengfei.”
IPAF Judge Sophia Vasalou on the 2017 Panel’s Criteria, Advice to Future Judges, and ‘Obligatory Sex Scenes’
“Reading a single good novel at a leisurely pace can be a pleasurable experience, but your work as judge involves consuming a non-optional slew of novels of dubious quality at breakneck speed, so it’s a very different experience altogether. But it is also stimulating, intense, and enriching, as you realise particularly when the curtain of the experience begins to fall.”
Mahmoud Hosny: Is ‘A Small Death’ Really the Best Book of the Year?
“There is also a mystical obsession with using Sufism as a means of combating rigid belief and extremism[.]”