Friday Finds: Cure Your Slavery with Patience
Cure your slavery with patience
and prayers
or so I was told
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sharjah Becomes Third Arab City Named ‘UNESCO World Book Capital’
Sharjah will be the nineteenth World Book Capital, and is set to follow Athens in 2018.
Launching Sahar Elmougy’s Long-awaited ‘The Hill’s Musk,’ A Rewriting of Mahfouz’s Amina
“She’d drowned herself in anti-depressants that left her a breathing corpse until, one day of July, Mariam found herself walking coldly into the kitchen and turning the knob on the cooker on so the gas would flow freely into the house. Minutes later, she turned it off quietly and opened the kitchen window as if to clear the house off the smell of potato frying.”
2 Arabic Books Make 2017 ‘National Translation Award’ Longlists
The National Translation Awards, now in their nineteenth year, promise to be “the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.”
7 Arabic Poetry Books Forthcoming in Translation: From Adonis to Zaqtan
There seems to have an general uptick in Arabic poetry forthcoming in English translation. These are the six (correction, SEVEN) on ArabLit’s radar.
Sunday Submissions: 2017 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
“Excerpts from longer works are welcome and preference will be given to contemporary work published within the last fifty years.”
After You’ve Read Omar Robert Hamilton’s ‘The City Always Wins,’ 5 More
Once you’ve read ‘The City Always Wins,’ five more Egypt books about feminism, revolution, and history.
Friday Finds: The Poetry of Underappreciated Saniyah Saleh
Her poetry appeared in the premier magazines of her time, particularly Shi’r and Mawaqif, but remained in the shadow of work by her husband, the poet Muhammad al-Maghout.
Tamim Barghouti and Translating Popular Arabic Poetry into English
And yet now Al-Barghouti — who is something of a poet-celebrity, with a viral poem in 2011 and a major 2007 appearance on the Prince of Poets TV show — has his first collection of work in English.