From Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘Samahani’
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out this week from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast […]
Fiction
New Short Fiction from Sudan: Rania Mamoun’s ‘Black & White’
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]