New Lit Prize for Debut Novelists
A year after Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa’s untimely death at the age of 59 — on September 30, 2023 — a group of his friends announced the launch of a […]
mlynxqualey
About mlynxqualey
Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘To the Students of Columbia University’
Editorial Preface The Editors of The Columbia Review, with ArabLit To The Students of Columbia University (رسالة إلى طلاب جامعة كولومبيا) By Ameer Hamad (tr. Amine Bit, Gabrielle Alvarez, […]
New Short Fiction: Fadi Azzam’s ‘The Pussy’
Fadi Azzam’s haunting novel Huddud’s House came out this spring from Interlink Books in Ghada Alatrash’s translation. In this new short story, composed this summer, Azzam tells of a dog […]
National Book Award Finalists Include Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Two Translations from Arabic
OCTOBER 1, 2024 — This year’s list of finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards saw works by Arab authors in four of the five categories: Libyan-British author Hisham Matar’s […]
Forthcoming October 2024: Fiction from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and More
This list is incomplete and limited to what we’ve been told about or discovered; if your book should be here, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. […]
New Poetry in Translation: Khaled Juma’s ‘The Right Time’
The Right Time By Khaled Juma Translated by Zainab Al Qaisi I had an appointment with the Right Time at the crumbling old café in the rundown city. I’d […]
Sudanese Poet Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim Dies at 85
By Lemya Shammat SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 — Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim (1939-2024), a celebrated poet and cultural icon of Sudan, died today in Cairo. He was 85. Born in El-Obied, North […]
Asmaa Dwaima: ‘A Sentence About Death’
A Sentence About Death By Asmaa Dwaima Translated by the ArabLit collective I would have been happy to die a martyr, but not in the way I see people dying […]
From Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘Samahani’
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out this week from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast […]