What Would You Get from a 2015 ALTA Fellowship?
“Fellows are paired with an established translator with whom they meet at the conference, who is available to them to answer questions and provide advice about their work.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Support a Storytelling Event in Qena, Egypt
“The Upper Egyptian events were supposed to be financially backed by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, as had been promised when Gaber Asfour was the minister. But with the recent change of ministers, the fund was cancelled with the new staff.”
Marina Warner on the Revelations of Classical Arabic Literature and Judging the Man Booker International
“The chair always writes an article about the [Man Booker International] prize, and I want to pay tribute to Radwa Ashour, because she was a strong candidate for the shortlist if she hadn’t died. I can’t guarantee that she would’ve been on, but she was definitely under consideration.”
Moroccan Writer Mahi Binebine on IMPAC’s 10-book Shortlist
“He tells of the characters who populated his childhood cosmos: the walking wounded, outcasts and failures – or ‘those left footsore by life,’ as he puts it.”
Hoda Barakat: ‘What Aggravates Me’ Is Recognition Comes Solely from the West
“There are a lot of advantages to writing in a European language, but I will continue to write in Arabic. Whether recognition comes or not, my world is the Arab world.”
Fadi Zaghmout’s ‘Paradise on Earth’: Family Dynamics in Futuristic Jordan
“Age manipulation can make entire families physically appear to be of a single generation: such is the case with the Christian community of Fuhais, who in a literalist reading of the Bible have all decided to live their lives in the same blissful childhood state.”
Why Medieval Arab Scholars Thought It Was Classier Not to Cite Sources, and Other Stylistic Choices
“The idea was that the readers who were informed would know which author was intended without having to be told. Especially when authors were criticizing contemporaries or scholars of recent memory, oblique criticism was considered to show more finesse.”
15 Great Books: How Civil War (Re)-shaped the Lebanese Novel
“War destroyed the mainstream ethics which were generated by the ruling [Maronite] political power. It gave voice to underground Beirut, the peripheral areas.”
Reading Ibn Hajjaj After the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Shootings
“I had to put this book down several times just to laugh.”