Sunday Submissions: Rowayat’s ‘Faith’ Issue & Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Egyptian magazine Rowayat has opened submissions for its sixth issue, ‘Faith’, and applications for Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference are also now open. Continue Reading

From ALQ: A Playlist for the Underground Music Scene of Post-Revolutionary Egypt

“Hey little brittle Balaha dates
Your four years have passed by in disgrace
We’ve been too long with your grace
And we’re sick of your dumb face”Continue Reading

New Short Fiction: ‘Invisible,’ by Taha Sewedy

“In the not-too-distant past, more or less thirty autumns ago, his mother had given him the mirror, which she named The Moon’s Face.”Continue Reading

13 Books in Translation: A Literary History of Egypt After 2011

These thirteen books (six novels, three works of literary nonfiction, a graphic novel, a poetry collection, a short-story collection, and a collection of playtexts) provide a not-insubstantial literary landscape of contrasting visions and emotions:Continue Reading

9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation

Although this list does include short stories by Radwa Ashour and Salwa Bakr, it largely focuses on work by women writers who emerged in the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s.Continue Reading

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Sunday Submissions: Rowayat’s ‘Faith’ Issue & Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

From ALQ: A Playlist for the Underground Music Scene of Post-Revolutionary Egypt

New Short Fiction: ‘Invisible,’ by Taha Sewedy

13 Books in Translation: A Literary History of Egypt After 2011

9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation

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Book Discussion: ‘Suleiman’s Ring’ with Author Sherif Meleka

Lit & Found: ‘Country of Words’ Podcast on Palestinian Literature

Nada Faris on Why She Stopped Avoiding Translation & Bringing Bothayna Al-Essa’s ‘Lost in Mecca’ into English

Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend

Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’