7-book Shortlist for 2024 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
JULY 15, 2024 — On Saturday, July 13, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Arab World Institute announced the shortlist for the eleventh annual of Prix de la Littérature Arabe, […]
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
An Excerpt from Yaseen Ghaleb’s ’15+’
For unclear reasons, Egyptian censors halted the distribution of Yassen Ghaleb’s novel 15+; the novel has been sitting in storage since 2020, when it was meant to be launched at […]
New Poetry by Olivia Elias, July 2024
Say By Olivia Elias translated by Jérémy Victor Robert A poet of the Palestinian diaspora, Olivia Elias writes in French. Born in Haifa in 1944, she lived until the age […]
Cat Tales: 9 Short Stories That Center Felines
Inspired by BookRiot’s recent list of new books in translation featuring cats, we revisit some of our favorite feline-focused short fictions. Egypt Egypt has many fictional cats, many of which […]
New Poetry from Wadih Saadeh’s Forthcoming Collection
Late this fall, Tenement Press will be bringing out a selection of work by the celebrated Lebanese-Australian poet Wadih Saadeh, titled A Horse at the Door. The book, forthcoming December […]
On an Award-Winning Novel & the Unstable Literary Scene in Libya
By Olivia Snaije When the Libyan writer Mohammed Alnaas won the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his debut novel Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table (Meskliniai Publishers & […]
‘My Grandfather and the Bookseller’
This essay first appeared in Romman in 2020. My Grandfather and the Bookseller By Abdalla Bayyari Translated by Dima Masri My maternal grandfather was a multilingual reader, and his library, […]
New Poetry from Gaza by Mohammed AlQudwa
War’s Echo By Mohammed AlQudwa Translated by Tala Al-Banna I have known war’s echo since I was a child age five when a rocket visited the sky of my […]
New Short Fiction: Azher Jerjis’s ‘The Crow’s Revelation’
This spring, Banipal Books brought out Iraqi novelist Azher Jirjees’s At Home in the Cherry Orchard. Here, emerging translator Bianca Rosen brings us one of Jirjees’s satiric short stories from […]