New Poetry in Translation: ‘The Seagulls are the Gateway of the Sea’
For the next several Wednesdays, ArabLit will be running a series of poems by Somaya Elsousi, a Palestinian poet from Gaza who now lives in Norway. You can read more […]
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
New Short Fiction from Libya: ‘The Italian Doctor’
The Italian Doctor By Mohamad Alarechya Translated by Azza Hasson “I failed to cut my nails today, my hand wouldn’t move, and I was out of cigarettes. I couldn’t stand […]
New Poetry of the Now by Basman Eldirawi
The Moment By Basman Eldirawi The saddest part is that we don’t know what the saddest part is Is it this moment? The next moment? Is the moment when […]
Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning Novelist Somaya Ramadan Dies, 73
AUGUST 20, 2024 — Somaya Ramadan — a prominent literary critic, award-winning author, and translator of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own — died Monday night. She was 73. […]
An Excerpt from Laila Aljohani’s Memoir, ‘Forty’
Saudi novelist Laila Aljohani is the author of the acclaimed Days of Ignorance, which is out of print in Nancy Robert’s translation, as well as the compelling memoir Forty, a […]
Fady Joudah: ‘How Is Your Devastation Today?’
This poem also appears on Mizna. How Is Your Devastation Today? By Fady Joudah Did a particular morning birdsong visit it? Did innocent grumbling about a meaningless desire that has […]
Iraqi Writer Sabiha Shubbar Dies in Morocco
AUGUST 8, 2024 — The Iraqi novelist and short-story writer Sabiha Shubbar died on Saturday, August 3, 2024 in Morocco. She was 70. Several news sources reported that she died […]
14 Books by Arab Women for 2024’s Women in Translation Month
By ArabLit Staff What follows are fourteen books by Arab women — written by women from across the Maghreb and Mashreq, translated to English and published this year — that […]
New Poetry for Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi
For Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi By Heba Al-Agha Translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso No grief to bear in this city no wall to weep on no helmet […]