Recommendations: On the New Wave of Memoirs from Iraq
Editor’s note: Publishers who are interested in Iraqi literatures will find more in our May Publishers Newsletter, out on May 15. By Hend Saeed In recent decades, memoir has burgeoned […]
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An Excerpt from Falah Raheem’s ‘Hedgehogs on a Hot Day’
In a recent interview, we asked Iraqi writer Duna Ghali which Iraqi writers she recommends; she pointed us to Falah Raheem, whose Hedgehogs on a Hot Day was published to great acclaim […]
Sarah Enany on Living — And Making a Living — As a Translator in Egypt
Sarah Enany is a Banipal Prize-winning literary translator (for her translation of Rasha Adly’s The Girl with Braided Hair) and a professor in the English Department of Cairo University. She […]
New Short Fiction: ‘Holy Wednesday’
As this is a novelette, some readers may prefer to read on a tablet, in PDF or epub form. It’s available free on the ArabLit store. Holy Wednesday By Mahmoud […]
Announcing the Launch of our Spring 2024 Issue, with Majalla 28: ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’
Copies of ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2024 issue are available for sale through our Gumroad store, at Amazon, and in select bookshops. As always, if you need a free e-copy, email […]
What Can Palestinian Literature Tell Us About Amputations in Gaza?
By Graham Liddell Words fail spectacularly in the shadow of 2,000 pound bombs. Palestinian author Anton Shammas recently described his own incapacity to respond in writing to the slaughter and […]
‘Today, We Need to Write at Least a Thousand Syrian Novels’
Tugrul Mende, in conversation with Fadi Azzam and Ghada Alatrash In April, Interlink Books published Fadi Azzam’s Huddud’s House—which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction back in 2018—in Dr. […]
Watch: Four Palestinian Writers on Gaza
The group Passages Through Genocide (gazapassages.com) collects, translates and publishes texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza, to lift up their words. You can read more about them […]
Duna Ghali on Writing, Translating, and Publishing Between Arabic and Danish
Last week, we shared an excerpt from Iraqi author Duna Ghali’s acclaimed novel Orbits of Lonelinessin maia tabet’s translation. This week, Duna talks with us about the differing receptions of […]