Poetry in Translation: Wadih Saadeh’s ‘The Suicides’
This translation initially ran in our Summer 2019 issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Who stormed checkpoints, taboos and fears, who conquered the darkness of the tunnel as they passed through it […]
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘All Rights Reserved to the People of Palestine’: Collecting & Translating Words Written in the Face of Genocide
Special to ArabLit Passages Through Genocide (gazapassages.com) is an online project that collates and disseminates texts written by Gazans living through the current Israeli assault. Conceived and run by an anonymous […]
An Excerpt from ‘Edo’s Souls,’ Multigenerational Epic of South & North Sudan
Stella Gaitano’s debut novel, Edo’s Souls, is a multigenerational epic set between Sudan and South Sudan that stages a battle between the forces of Motherhood and Death. In this excerpt of […]
Ahmed Naji’s ‘Rotten Evidence’ a Finalist for 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award
JANUARY 25, 2024 — Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are granted in eight categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, […]
Eight Publishers Bringing Out Gazan ‘Diary of a Genocide’ in 7 Languages
By ArabLit Staff Political scientist and multi-award-winning novelist Gazan Atef Abu Saif — author of the moving The Drone Eats with Me, an account of the 2014 bombardment of Gaza — […]
Layla Azmi Goushey on Launching Multilingual ‘Baladi’ Magazine
ArabLit Staff Writer, scholar, teacher, and editor Layla Azmi Goushey recently launched a new online literary magazine. It’s called Baladi, and it’s available at baladimagazine.com. The project started at the end of 2020, she […]
‘Underneath the Rubble’: A Short Story from Syria
This short story, by Syrian writer Iyad Shaheen, first appeared in Dahnoon in 2013. Underneath the Rubble By Iyad Shaheen Translated by Ghada Alatrash The earthquake that struck the city […]
A Poem from Ghassan Zaqtan’s New Collection
Editor’s note: The poems in Ghassan Zaqtan’s Strangers in Light Coats, translated by Robin Moger and published by Seagull Books this month, are come from four of Zaqtan’s collections, published […]
Global Day of Action: #ReadforRefaat
JANUARY 15, 2024 — This marks forty days since the Palestinian poet, editor, and educator Refaat Alareer was killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. Today, Publishers for Palestine are calling for a […]