Ibtisam Azem’s ‘Book of Disappearance’ Makes 2025 International Booker Longlist
Ibtisam Azem’s Book of Disappearance, translated by Sinan Antoon, has made the thirteen-book longlist for the 2025 International Booker.
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From Mohamed N.M. Ali’s ‘The Call of Stillness’
These two poems, from Mohamed N.M. Ali latest collection, “نداء السكون” (The Call of Stillness), search for a self and selfhood “in the evening of oblivion.”
‘Dialogue’: A Poem by Mostafa Ibrahim
A dialogue between the present and the absent, the living and the dead. In this poem, “The world’s always / a step ahead. I caught / myself laughing two days / ago, while you, my friend, / haven’t made it / one year under / the dirt.”
The ‘Guardian of the Sudanese Short Story,’ Mohamed Khair Abdullah, Dies
Author Hamed Bakhit told Ultra Sudan that Mohamed Khair had advised him to write, adding, “Write, because if you want to change the reality in Sudan, you can change it only by writing every day.”
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2025 Shortlist
At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt — and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors — translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
New Poetry in Translation: Anas al-Ghouri’s ‘Dream-Drenched Theft’
Here, Syrian poet Anas al-Ghouri reflects back on “wish-filled pockets” and the shoes that would reclaim childhood from want.
Winners of Second Annual Bait AlGhasham DarArab Prize
In Muscat, Oman, organizers put on a two-day ceremony to celebrate winners of the second-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize.
New ‘Azhar Writing Prize’ Welcomes Submissions
The Azhar Writing Prize, which aims “to increase the representation of Arab voices in English literature,” is open to submissions from Arab writers who “have not had a novel or a collection of short stories published.”
New Poetry by Ramzi Salem: ‘A Body of Nakedness’
In this new work, by Palestinian poet Ramzi Salem, when “our habits shatter before our eyes,” there is a new vision of belonging: “these candles will become a homeland, / painting our silhouettes on the tent’s walls, / multiplying us in warmth and number.”