For our forthcoming bilingual publication — which will feature the fifteen short stories shortlisted for the 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prize, co-produced by ArabLit and Komet Kashakeel — we made […]
By Husam Maarouf Translated by Wiam El-Tamami I want to tell you this: I miss the cool surface of my bookcase at home. I would lean my back against it, […]
Mohamed Choukri’s Faces, the third book in his famous trilogy of fictionalized autobiographical works that began with For Bread Alone, finally came out in Jonas Elbousty’s English translation this month, […]
By Lemya Shammat OCTOBER 18, 2024 — Dr. Hashim Mirghani Al-Hajj — a distinguished Sudanese writer, critic, and academic — has been awarded the prestigious Katara Novel Prize in the […]
Mercy Killing By Fadi Azzam Translated by Ghada Alatrash She tied his hands and feet, fixed his head between two wooden supports, sealed his mouth with tape, and pinched his […]
A Sentence About Death By Asmaa Dwaima Translated by the ArabLit collective I would have been happy to die a martyr, but not in the way I see people dying […]
Black & White By Rania Mamoun Translated by Nassir A-Sayeid Al-Nour I stepped into my room. I found a young man, tensed and searching for something. He looked inside drawers, […]
Last month, the UK edition of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance appeared in Sinan Antoon’s translation from And Other Stories. Rahael Mathews took the opportunity to discuss this compelling […]
For the next several Wednesdays, ArabLit will be running a series of poems by Somaya Elsousi, a Palestinian poet from Gaza who now lives in Norway. You can read more […]
