Keep Your Eye on the Wall, ed. Olivia Snaije and Mitch Albert, is less a coffee-table collection, and more — because of its accordion-style binding — a book to transect the floor of your living space, much like the Separation Walls that keep Palestinians apart from Palestinians, from Israelis, from the world, and often from their own land.
Egyptian novelist Bahaa Abdelmeguid appeared, at the beginning of this month, at one of the AUC Press “Book Alley” events, where he spoke about his novellas ‘Sleeping with Strangers’ and ‘St. Theresa,’ trans. Chip Rossetti, and his forthcoming ‘Temple Bar,’ trans. Jonathan Wright.
Sarah Irving and Henry Bell, co-editors of the forthcoming volume of Palestinian poetry in translation — A Bird is not a Stone — are perhaps the first to run a successful crowdfunding campaign to promote Arabic literature in translation. ArabLit wanted to hear more about how they did it, and why they thought it worked.
American University in Cairo CAASIC fellow Anny Gaul is currently translating a section from Omar Hazek’s novel “I Don’t Love This City.” Meanwhile, the author — whose case has been taken up by PEN International — remains in prison.
This talk, by Egyptian writer and theatre artist Dalia Basiouny, is sure to be interesting.
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt myself burrow as deeply inside a character as I did inside Myriam, the narrator of Iman Humaydan’s “Other Lives,” translated into English by Michelle Hartman and recently released by Interlink.
Several Syrian artists will tour the UK this June to launch Syria Speaks, a new PEN-supported anthology of art and culture to be published by Saqi Books.
At this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, YA author and would-be/will-be publisher Noura al-Noman drove in from Sharjah to talk about translating literature for young people. She spoke about the particular importance of translating science fiction into Arabic.
Book activist Jamila Hassoune was at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair at an event with Italian writer and blogger Chiara Comito: By Chiara Comito “If there have been […]
