On Gender Stereotypes in Sudanese Fiction
“Malkat Addar Mohammad’s الفراغالعريض (The Wide Void) was the first novel by a Sudanese woman that was published in Arabic. Written in the early 1950s, it was only published in 1972.”
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Kamal Al-Jizouli and Sudanese Sound Poetry
“A poem brims first with a forceful downpour, followed by soft, tamed sounds, resembling Khartoum’s twin-Nile miracle where the thundering roar of the Blue Nile meets the sleepy sigh of the White.”
A Talk about Sudanese Short Stories and ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
“There are many writers whose short stories I enjoy. For example, the South Sudanese writer Stella Gaitano, as well as Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin and Mansour Suwaim. Also Mohsen Khalid—although he hasn’t written for a while.”
12 (Auto)biographical Narratives by Algerian Women
“A common and conspicuous theme across the suggested texts below is that they are either set within or draw heavily from the national struggle against French colonial rule and its lingering aftermath in Algeria.”
Literary Playlist: Rania Mamoun’s ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’
“It is easier to talk to animals — and to solicit their help in a time of need — than to get help from one’s fellow humans who have more than they need.”
‘A Giant Multi-room Museum Piece’: Ibrahim al-Koni’s ‘The Fetishists’
“Yet if al-Koniʹs shorter ‘Bleeding of the Stone’ and ‘Gold Dust’ are small paintings you can hang on a living-room wall, then The Fetishists is a giant multi-room museum piece.”
The Microfictions of Sudanese Writer Fatima As-Sanoussi
As-Sanoussi’s stories had wide influence on Sudan’s ‘80s generation writers, who found inspiration and guidance in her condensed artistic practice.
A Look at 100 Books: Algerian Literature in English Translation
Since 1956, nearly 100 novels, memoirs, and poetry collections written by Algerian writers have appeared in translation. Among these works, a third have appeared since 2010.
The Popular Art and Poetry of Sudanese Protesters
“A bullet doesn’t kill, what really kills is the silence of the oppressed.”