Muhammad Al-Turki’s ‘Now You Are All of Us’
Translator’s Note The young Saudi poet Muhammad Al-Turki mourns the great Saudi poet Badr Bin Abdulmohsin Al-Bader, who passed away on May 4, 2024, in a poem titled “Now You […]
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An Excerpt from Tareq Imam’s ‘The Taste of Sleep’
This excerpt first appeared in the WINTER 2020 DREAMS issue of ArabLit Quarterly. From ‘The Taste of Sleep’ By Tareq Imam Translated by Katherine Van de Vate Tareq Emam’s 2019 […]
‘Workshops for Gaza’ Launches Joint Online Educational Series + Fundraiser
By ArabLit Staff JUNE 2024 — Earlier this month, a group of writers and educators launched “Workshops for Gaza,” and the first workshops are set to be taught in July […]
North Gazan Writer Yousri Alghoul on Fundraising for a Library
By ArabLit Staff Palestinian novelist Yousri Alghoul — who makes his home in north Gaza — turned his personal library into a community space in 2022. When it was destroyed […]
On Abjjad’s Free Ebooks for Gaza
By Olivia Snaije In May, Gaza author and translator Anas Samhan tweeted a request, asking whether anyone knew people who worked at Abjjad, the Jordanian e-book app. People in Gaza […]
On Translating ‘Small, Shining Moments of Crystalline Beauty’
By Tugrul Mende Earlier this year, World Editions published Samar Yazbek’s Where The Wind Calls Home, translated by Leri Price. It centers a young soldier as he lays dying from […]
New Fiction in Translation: From Khaled Alesmael’s ‘Selamlik’
Selamlik, out this April from World Editions, is the story of a man finding love in Syria just as his world is shattered. This excerpt, from early in the novel, […]
New Short Fiction from Sudan: Abdulmajid Olesh’s ‘The Doctor’
A man is feeling dizzy, and goes to visit a doctor. The Doctor By Abdulmajid Olesh Translated by Nassir al-Sayied al-Nour There was only a little time left to get […]
A Look Back: Iconic Egyptian Writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Yesterday, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s A Nose and Three Eyes appeared from Hoopoe Fiction, in Jonathan Smolin’s translation. In the foreword, which appeared yesterday on ArabLit, Hanan al-Shaykh writes about her […]