Authors and Translators Who Left Us in 2022
We look back at a few of the influential authors whose deaths we marked in 2022. February 2022 Moroccan author Driss El Khouri died in his home in Salé. He was […]
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On the Sonallah Ibrahim Renaissance
“I think there is also the question of who gets to write Egypt’s history, and who will maintain the archives and documents necessary to tell that history?”
Goodbye, Hello: The BEGIN AGAIN issue of ArabLit Quarterly
“And although beginnings have the better reputation, a beginning also serves to close off other possibilities. The ending, meanwhile, opens them up.”
Origin Stories: Tracing Jabra and Munif’s childhoods in Bethlehem and Amman
On a sweltering July day in Amman, I left my friend’s apartment in Abdoun and made my way to Jabal Amman with nothing more than a set of vague coordinates plugged in to Google Maps to guide me. I was in search of Abdulrahman Munif’s childhood home.
A Physician on the Nile Lives Among the Dead: A Talk with Tim Mackintosh-Smith
“There is a scene where a woman is eating her husband’s thigh and she says, ‘It’s alright, he is my husband.’”
New Poetry: ‘Mind the Gap,’ a Syrian on the London Underground
On the underground / I sit and contemplate the ceiling. / London passes over me.
Fatma Qandil’s ‘Empty Cages’ Wins 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Qandil, who dedicated the award to Arab women writers, said that winning this prize proves that her long journey with writing “was not in vain.”
‘Matters of National Football’
In honor of today’s match, we’re running this essay from our beloved FOOTBALL issue, by Moroccan author Yassin Adnan, translated by Moroccan translator Hicham Rafik, with photographs by Moroccan photographer Omar Mesrar.
5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.