Today: A Motion to Stay Ahmed Naji’s Two-year Prison Sentence for His Novel ‘Using Life’
“Supporters have asked those in Egypt to gather at 10 a.m.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
New Poems by Dareen Tatour, Under House Arrest in Israel
They signed on my behalf
And turned me into
A file, forgotten
Like cigarette butts.
Among 139 Funded Projects, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant Has Gone to an Arabic Book Just Once
“Why haven’t there been more grants for Arabic literary projects? “
Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
“Let us be loud enough that he hears us.”
A True Loss in Translation: The Edited English Version of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘In Praise of Hatred’
“Khalifa’s novel, deprived of its original concluding chapter, is transformed by the publisher and reviewers into Orientalist ethnographicism, inviting audiences to a ‘peek inside’ the harem.”
Ibn al-Nabulusi and the Reasons to Translate ‘Bigot Lit’
“[W]hat this book shows us is that exclusionary ideas arise out of particular milieus and under particular stresses. The authors are not just inspired by the contents of the tradition, they’re aggressively shaping and pruning the tradition to suit their own needs.”
Sunday Submissions: Literary Magazines Looking for Translations in July
Magazines looking for literary translations and multi-lingual texts this month.
Is Sayed Kashua the Funniest Living: A) Israeli-Palestinian or B) Palestinian-Israeli Author?
Whether you read Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Israeli-Palestinian Life” or Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Palestinian-Israeli Life” depends on whether you buy books printed in the US or the UK. But don’t worry, they’re both equally funny.
Friday Films: ‘The Water Carrier is Dead’ and ‘Land of Hypocrisy,’ Based on Novels by Yusuf al-Sibai
The 1977 film was directed by Salah Abu Seif and won “Best Film of the Year” from the Egyptian Film Association.