Spoken-word Poet Afra Atiq: Placing the Individual at the Heart of Her Commentary
She doesn’t shy away from addressing the big issues, she said, but she wants to place the individual at the heart of her social commentary.
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Elisabeth Jaquette Wins PEN/Heim Grant to Translate Short-story Collection by Rania Mamoun
“Providing a platform for Mamoun and other authors from the seven banned countries is even more important in a time when the US is shutting its borders and stoking racist xenophobia. But work like hers should not be forced to exist in a space defined primarily by the narrative of security. Eventually, I hope readers pick up these stories for their emotional intimacy, depictions of urban alienation, and blurred lines between reality and the imaginary.”
Support a Syrian Writer’s Relocation to Toronto
The Catalyst5 is committed, under the terms of Canada’s Private Refugee Sponsorship program, to supporting Mustafa for his first year in Canada.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Pusteblume’ and More
Translators must submit “both the source text and the translation. PDF scans of the original text is acceptable. Translators should include a statement indicating the rights status of the original texts.”
‘Banipal,’ Magazine of Arabic Literature in Translation, Puts Full Digital Archive Online
Nearly twently years’ worth of Arabic literature in translation — as well as reviews, interviews, and event reports — have been put online in a searchable archive: Banipal, the only […]
Friday Finds: ‘The Exquisite Engineering of Geography’s Tumult’
In an obscure crowd, an obscene clarity dawns on me.
In the midst of the exquisite engineering of geography’s tumult, a bullet quietly passes through me, at my lower back,
Reading Don Quixote in Haifa
“If it were up to me, I might have given our hero an Arab name and origins in a Palestinian village few people had ever heard of. Maybe something like The Adventures of Don Abu Mukh from Baqa, or The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Rohana from Issifia.”
Comma Press to Translate Only Authors from ‘Banned’ Nations in 2018 and Other #LIISSSY Disruptions
Presses shifting gears, agents inviting submissions from Muslim writers, at least one author turning down invitations to come to the US, and other #LIISSSY disruptions.
Hassan Blasim: ‘A Refugee in the Paradise that is Europe’
This short text by Iraqi short-story writer and playwright Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright, has been circulating again on social media.