Lit & Found: Samira Azzam’s ‘The Roc Flew Over Shahraban’
Slowly, we raised our heads as hellish cries echoed in our ears, and we looked up in awe and fear.
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Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s ‘You Can Be the Last Leaf,’ Tr. Fady Joudah, Makes Inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Longlist
The National Book Critics Circle today announced the twelve-book longlist for their inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
A Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam’s ‘Out of Time’
“When I asked when they sang this song, they said: ‘at weddings!’”
Samira Azzam’s ‘On the Road’
There goes the bell. I’ve been waiting for so long! I quickly pull my hand from the tub of water where the empty bottles are piled up, ready to be washed and refilled with beer, then loaded up and taken to the city’s bars and nightclubs. There, they’re poured straight into mouths whose thirst will never be quenched. They soon come back to me, empty, waiting to be washed.
Adania Shibli on Samira Azzam: ‘Out of Time’
“My little watch is the first to sense the change, going into and out of Palestine.”
INTRODUCING ‘Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam’
Today, we are launching our first crowd-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam.
Extended Conversation: On Wishes, Translation, & Being ‘Deena Shubeik Lubeik’
“There’s a real novelty to seeing modern Egyptian life illustrated like this because it’s not as common as people think and most of us haven’t grown up with it, and I know that because I enjoy it too. It’s the joy of representation in its most literal form; visual representation for the sake of its own existence.”
The Patriotic Sufi
“Faceless, I gaze. / Legless, I dance.”
Three Novels Make 2022 Banipal Prize Shortlist
The shortlisted titles are Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s The Men Who Swallowed the Sun, translated by the late Humphrey Davies; Yassin Adnan’s Hot Maroc, translated by Alexander E. Elinson, and Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, translated by Robin Moger.