An Excerpt from Jokha Alharthi’s Latest, ‘Silken Gazelles’
Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies (tr. Marilyn Booth) was an instant sensation when it became is the first book translated from Arabic — and still the only book translated from Arabic […]
Fiction
New Short Fiction from Libya: ‘The Italian Doctor’
The Italian Doctor By Mohamad Alarechya Translated by Azza Hasson “I failed to cut my nails today, my hand wouldn’t move, and I was out of cigarettes. I couldn’t stand […]
From ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’: Short Fiction by Yousri Alghoul
This short story appeared in the “Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!” issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Today My Sight Is Sharp By Yousri Alghoul Translated by Graham Liddell You were totally heedless […]
From Atef Abu Saif’s ‘Walk Don’t Walk’
In Atef Abu Saif’s 2019 novel, set in Jabalia, Gaza, a host of local characters attempt to solve an ever-expanding mystery, each in their own way, but all relying mainly on their imaginations. […]
An Excerpt from Yaseen Ghaleb’s ’15+’
For unclear reasons, Egyptian censors halted the distribution of Yassen Ghaleb’s novel 15+; the novel has been sitting in storage since 2020, when it was meant to be launched at […]
From Asmaa Alatawna’s ‘A Long Walk From Gaza’
A Long Walk From Gaza — written by Asmaa Alatawna and co-translated by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman — is a story about a girl’s life in Gaza and her […]
New Short Fiction: Azher Jerjis’s ‘The Crow’s Revelation’
This spring, Banipal Books brought out Iraqi novelist Azher Jirjees’s At Home in the Cherry Orchard. Here, emerging translator Bianca Rosen brings us one of Jirjees’s satiric short stories from […]
An Excerpt from Tareq Imam’s ‘The Taste of Sleep’
This excerpt first appeared in the WINTER 2020 DREAMS issue of ArabLit Quarterly. From ‘The Taste of Sleep’ By Tareq Imam Translated by Katherine Van de Vate Tareq Emam’s 2019 […]
New Fiction in Translation: From Khaled Alesmael’s ‘Selamlik’
Selamlik, out this April from World Editions, is the story of a man finding love in Syria just as his world is shattered. This excerpt, from early in the novel, […]