Poetic, Experimental, Young: Inaugural Almultaqa Prize Shortlist
“Al-Multaqa Prize for the Short Story has announced its inaugural shortlist, with an emphasis on vigorous, young, experimental writing.”
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Marilyn Hacker on Moving Between Poetry and Translation
“Things I’d like to see translated into English: more of the novels of Hoda Barakat, a contemporary Lebanese writer; the essays of Abdelfattah Killito, a Moroccan literary scholar who writes sometimes in French and sometimes in Arabic; the poetry and prose of Salim Barakat, a Syrian Kurdish poet, no relation to Hoda ….; the plays of Saadallah Wannous, the Syrian Brecht (d. 1996); Adonis’ monumental Al-Kitab.”
Sayed Elsisi’s Book ‘Post Prose Poem’ Reportedly Banned in Lebanon
“I cannot really imagine how such academic book can be that dangerous because of examining the erotic experience in the modern Arabic poetry?”
For Halloween: Five Richly Terrifying Arab Novels
“Either way, there are some truly hair-curling, gooseflesh-raising, get-me-off-this-planet Arab books.”
Sunday Submissions: National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships
“It’s time to get ready for the December 6, 2016 deadline for NEA Translation fellowships.”
‘The End of the World’: Poet Dima Yousef’s Journey from Yarmouk to Algiers
“In a journey that continues to be marked by uncertainty and marred by individual and collective losses, Dima has no idea where life will take her next.”
40 Years Gone: The Literary and Social Legacy of Taha Hussein
“I was privileged to touch his face, and how handsome, scholarly and full of inward light it was!”
In ‘Nour,’ Youssef Ziedan Returns To One of His Favorite Topics
“It is not quite clear the extent to which Noura (or even young Nour) is meant to be allegory for Egypt. She has, after all, refused both the Islamic and Western options, and remained confident of her ability to devise her own way in spite of her dubious future.”
Novel by Leila Slimani Finalist for Both France’s Goncourt and Renaudot Prizes
“Also yesterday, Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine took this year’s Prix Femina Étranger for ‘Les Vies de papier’ (the French version of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’), as translated by Nicolas Richard. “