Call for Submissions to Spring 2024 Issue: ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’
The theme of ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2024 issue is Gaza! Gaza! Gaza! Please send us your pitch or completed piece via this Google form or send an email to info@arablit.org. We […]
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Release of Atef Abu Saif’s 2023 Memoir ‘Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide’
DECEMBER 27, 2023 Publisher Comma Press — which previously brought out Atef Abu Saif’s acclaimed The Drone Eats With Me — yesterday published a new memoir by the award-winning author, titled Don’t Look Left: […]
New Short Fiction: ‘For She Who Birthed a Dream and She Who Birthed a Sorrow’
By Nibal Thawabteh Translated by Faten Hafez The villagers called her Alkarsa, or “the mute woman.” This was not just a label, but rather a description of her condition: she was indeed […]
Palestinian Artist Taysir Batniji on His New Book, ‘Disruptions’
By Olivia Snaije In January of 2024, the Marseille- and London-based independent publishing house, Loose Joints, which focuses on contemporary photography, will publish a work by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji. […]
Poets & Writers Join ‘Fast for Gaza’ December 21, 2023
Poets, writers, scholars, organizers, and others — including the collective at ArabLit — are calling for a “Fast for Gaza” beginning December 21, 2023, from sunrise to sunset, which will […]
Tayeb Salih: ‘Yes, the Nile Speaks to Me’
Introduced and translated by Adil Babikir “I was always fascinated by the river from my very early childhood”, Tayeb Salih once said. “And I think I somewhat understood what the […]
Egypt’s Sawiris Award Announces 2024 Shortlists of Emerging Writer Prizes
DECEMBER 16, 2023 — Yesterday, the Sawiris Foundation announced the shortlists for its 2024 emerging writers and screenwriting awards. The prize is in its nineteenth year. The five-book shortlist for the […]
A New Poem by Fady Joudah
Palestinian poet, scholar, and educator Refaat Al-Areer’s poem “If I Must Die” was his pinned tweet when he was killed on December 7, 2023, when an an Israeli airstrike targeted […]
2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist: ‘From 1920s Cairo to Tunisia’s Ancient Book Markets to Famine in 1970s Jerusalem’
DECEMBER 14, 2023 — Former IPAF winner Raja Alem, with her latest novel Bahbel: Makkah Multiverse 1945-2009, was among those on the 16-book longlist for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, […]