For Halloween: Five Richly Terrifying Arab Novels
“Either way, there are some truly hair-curling, gooseflesh-raising, get-me-off-this-planet Arab books.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
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. “
A Bedouin George Bush, Rule of the British, and Other Tangles at the Inaugural Dubai Translation Conference
“Ahdaf Soueif wondered whether the lack of the word ‘tarab’ in English meant that that feeling did not exist for English-speakers. And yet, she noted, there is no word for frustration in Arabic, though the feeling is well-known among Arabs. Though she does not think one can do away with these gaps, she considers them very rich.”
Readers in 9 Countries Get Discounts on Arabic E-books for Emirates’ ‘Year of Reading’
As part of this effort, the Emirates Literature Foundation helped identify and curate “a collection of over 50 Arabic books in the Google Play Books store that will be discounted at 90 per cent off.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Transference’ and Other Journals Seeking Translations
Other journals explicitly seeking translations include ‘Ricochet,’ ‘The Cossack Review,’ ‘Berkeley Poetry Review,’ and ‘Marvels & Tales.’