Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘Traces of Enayat’
And Other Stories has released the cover of Iman Mersal’s groundbreaking Traces of Enayat, set for release in Robin Moger’s translation this August 3.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Kanafani and Shibli: Different Stagings of Palestine, Different Stagings of Death
In an essay that originally appeared in Turkish, novelist Süreyyya Evren explores the deaths in works by Ghassan Kanafani and Adania Shibli.
Yasmine Seale Selected as 2023–2024 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced today that they have selected fifteen fellows for its 2023-24 year, a list of academics, authors, artists, and one literary translator: Yasmine Seale.
Shady Lewis in Paris, on the Launch of the French Translation of ‘On the Greenwich Line’
The event for Lewis at the Institut du Monde Arabe, which took place on a sunny day in Paris, was packed, and while he spoke in Arabic via an interpreter, the majority of the audience had obviously read him in Arabic and were already laughing by the time his sentences were translated into French.
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Stars and Rain’
“You who have shot me like a bullet outside the world.”
‘Palestine Writes’ Anthology of Palestinian Literature in the Diaspora
Palestine Writes Press, a new publishing house, has announced their first call for submissions.
From ‘The Beauty Hunters’: An Excerpt from Adil Babikir’s Work on Sudanese Bedouin Poetry
To give readers a glimpse of The Beauty Hunters, we run a selection from the first chapter, which tells us a little about Al-Ḥārdallo’s life and poems.
Launching the Spring 2023 RAIN Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: ‘Pouring All Night Long’
Find the driving rhythm of rain, the prayers to make rain come (and leave), art, poetry, short stories and more in this issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
Cover Reveal and Launch Event for Mona Kareem’s ‘I Will Not Fold These Maps’
On Sunday, May 14, ArabLit and the Poetry Translation Centre will co-host a launch event for Mona Kareem’s collection I Will Not Fold These Maps, translated to English by Sara Elkamel.