On the 4th of July: Portraits of Americans in Arabic Literature
“Now the Americans have occupied it and surrounded it with walls and checkpoints; our new rulers can live far away from us.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sunday Submissions: The 2016 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
” Excerpts from longer works are welcome and preference will be given to contemporary work published within the last fifty years.”
Beating — or Joining — Literary Piracy in Sudan
“To start with, a literary work is subject to taxes and customs, whereas a religious book is not.”
Friday Films: ‘The Open Door,’ Based on a Novel by Latifa Zayyat
“It’s set during al-Zayyat’s first political awakening, in the decade post-WWII.”
The Transnational, Arab, Gay, Coming-of-Age Novel
From PEN World Voices’ 2016 events.
An Open Letter from Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour, Under House Arrest
“My message to all of you, without exception, is the message of a loving woman, striving for peace and safety, and hoping that justice and equality will be shared by all human beings everywhere.”
‘Arab World Books’ To Get a ‘Complete Makeover’
“Arab World Books (http://www.arabworldbooks.com/), founded in March 1998, has long been a fantastic resource, but — a bit like ArabLit — it is stuck in a design that made sense the year of its launch.”
An Interview with the Anonymous Author of ‘Through Algeria’
In the tradition of Assia Djebar’s Fantasia, Algerian author-scholar Nadia Ghanem has a discussion with the anonymous unaccompanied Englishwoman who wrote Through Algeria.
‘Seeing the Back of Anthropological, Forensic, and White-savior Interest in Arabic Literature’
“In a way, every genre is specific to its literary history, right?”