Should You Read Naguib Mahfouz’s Juvenalia?
“Naguib Mahfouz didn′t want his early essays salvaged from out-of-print journals, dusted off and collected in an anthology.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Review: Alawiya Sobh’s Feminist Frisson in ‘Maryam, Keeper of Stories’
“If there were a light inside my belly and I could look up my hole, I would check for you if it’s a boy or a girl and let you know!”
Poem from Syria Becomes Part of Haunting Composition ‘Songish’
“[A]nd what can I do from where I am except raise my voice against this somehow.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Underpass,’ a New Journal for Literary Translations
“Although in practice, they say, this ‘means any language other than Spanish, French, or German.'”
NEA Announces 23 Literary-translation Fellowships; 2 Will Translate Arab Writers
“Complete with fight scenes, love scenes, and warrior women, this epic follows a woman and her son and their posse of friends as they move back and forth primarily in the Arab-Byzantine borderlands, with visits to Constantinople and to the caliph’s court in Baghdad.”
How Do You Translate ‘Zeft’?
“How was the trip when you got picked at the airport because you were being loud in Arabic? Epic zeft.”
‘A Curious Land,’ ‘The Republics’ Among 2016 Winners of Arab American Book Awards
“Death is careless at times. It confuses love with a wet afternoon in an empty room.”
Short-story Collection by Hassan Blasim on Finalist’s List for Finnish Prize
“The winner will be take home a ‘golden’ library card and €1,000.”
The Afterlife of Ghassan Kanafani
“[A] Canadian teacher has been suspended for giving a speech in which she called the assassinated Palestinian writer a martyr.”