Friday Finds: Miral al-Tahawy’s ‘Writing the Body and the Rhetoric of Protest in Arab Women’s Literature’
“That was a girl who intuitively knew that modesty resides in denying her female identity.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Syrian Poet and Actor Fadwa Souleiman, 45
“For if you have crossed
So have we all”
Must-read Classics by Arab Women Writers: Short Stories by Samira Azzam
“…one of the first and pre-eminent Palestinian literary voices in the wake of the Nakba of 1948.”
Four Tunisian Women Writers You Should Know
They named me without asking my permission.
They bequeathed me their bodies’ curses,
then said,
“This is your heritage.
Live in peace with it and smile!”
Malika Moustadraf’s ‘Just Different’
How lucky they are! They do it in public. They’re shameless—as the saying goes, “Not only God sees them but his servants do too.” They don’t have to worry about a police patrol, or about what people will say.
An Excerpt from Taghreed al-Najjar’s YA Novel, ‘Sitt al-Kul’
“The horizon stretched endlessly in front of her. Yusra had forgotten the world was so huge. She left the shore farther and farther behind, and thanked God the sea was calm that day. Far off in the distance, far away, she saw Israeli naval patrol ships looming menacingly on the horizon. They were poised like sea monsters, ready to snatch up the fishing boats. She turned away and gazed out even farther, imagining far-off countries she wished she could visit.”
Sunday Submissions: The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
“Note that you must be a PEN member to nominate a translator for the prize.”
Saturday Summer Re-Runs: Alexandra Chreiteh on Writing About Menstruation in Modern Standard Arabic
“And remember: talking about periods in fus7a is not insulting, because periods are not insulting!”
Friday Finds: A Conversation with Libyan Novelist Najwa Benshatwan
“But my work came to the scrutiny of the Libyan authorities who tried to lure me to write about the regime and its ideology which I refused to do.”