On Larissa Sansour’s Fictional Futures: ‘Isn’t The Most Radical Activity Formed in Trauma?’
In The Future disrupts notions of history as static or stable, encouraging reflection on the “radical activity formed in trauma.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Friday Films: ‘The Impossible,’ Based on a Novel by Mostafa Mahmoud
Every Friday, ArabLit suggests a new classic film-book combination — for you to watch and read — until we run out of steam about 20 weeks in: This week, it’s the 1965 […]
Apply Now to Tandem: An Exchange Between Arab and European ‘Culture Managers’
“Tandem promises an intensive one-year international exchange and EUR 5,000 start-up money for an initial project.”
New in Collaborative Translation: ‘Half Life,’ by Gibran Khalil Gibran
“You are a person! You exist to live a full life, not a half life.”
June 2016: Global Calendar of Arab and Arabic Literary Events
A global calendar of Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.
An ‘Untapped Thirst for Contemporary International Drama in Translation’?
“Was mine a legitimate interest in their plays as dramatic literature? Or was it a newfangled fascination with the recent events of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and a taste for the exotic?”
Sunday Submissions: New $5000 Global Humanities Translation Prize
The annual prize will go to a “previously unpublished translation that strikes the delicate balance beween scholarly rigor, aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged by a rotating committee of distinguished international scholars and literati.”
Palestinian Writer Raji Bathish on the ‘Conscious Decision to Authoring Queer, Sexualized Texts’
“Do you think this queerness can enrich Palestinian culture?”
Friday Films: ‘The Sixth Day,’ Based on a Novel by Andrée Chedid
Notably, this is the first of our Friday films based on a book written by a woman.