DECEMBER 15, 2023 — Comma Press have announced the winner of their 2023 Emerging Translator Prize, hosted in partnership with Bristol Translates Summer School and the University of Bristol. This year’s focus […]
Ibrahim al-Koni’s “The Desert Also Keened” is winner of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize in Dima El Mouallem’s translation. By Ibrahim al-Koni Translated by Dima El Mouallem A man of […]
Today, we make a delayed announcement that the winners of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are Dima El Mouallem and Ibrahim al-Koni, for El Mouallem’s translation of al-Koni’s “The Desert Also […]
DECEMBER 12, 2023 — The Kuwait-based AlMultaqa Prize for Arabic Short Stories has announced their five-book shortlist for the 2023-24 awards cycle. According to judging chair Shahla Ujayli, a former winner […]
DECEMBER 7, 2023 — A November 7 report from the NGO “Heritage for Peace” estimated that more than 100 heritage sites had been destroyed in Gaza since the start of the […]
DECEMBER 7, 2023 — Author, editor, translator, and educator Refaat Alareer reportedly died today in an airstrike on his sister’s home that also killed his brother, sister, and her four children, […]
On October 17 of this year, Stanford University Press published Refqa Abu-Remaileh’s “Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature,” which is available online at countryofwords.org. The project, made available […]
This poem is shared by Gazan Palestinian poet Basman Aldirawi, also the author of “This Bread Was Born, This Bread Was Killed.” The Idea Has Failed By Basman Aldirawi Translated […]
Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist from Gaza. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Deadwon the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She […]
