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.
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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.
5 Must-read Narrative (Arab) Comix Online
A glimpse of five recent narrative projects that you can read online.
Ahmed Naji’s New New Short-story Collection and Other Releases at 2017 Cairo Book Fair
“China will have a bigger booth this year…and has expanded its participation in the fair to an unprecedented extent.”