New from Hoopoe Fiction, An Excerpt of ‘My First & Only Love’
“Spies were everywhere.”
Fiction
From the Archives: Belal Fadl’s ‘Into the Tunnel’
“No one expected things to go this way.”
Remembering Ghassan Kanafani: To Read, Watch, Listen
“Celebrated novelist and short-story writer Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936. Almost fifty years have passed since his assassination at the age of just 36.”
‘Tapes 3 & 4’: An Excerpt from Haji Jaber’s ‘The Spindle Game’
“What made the Archive Department’s documents history, given that her documents were closer to real life? In the end, wasn’t history life in the past?”
Friday Finds: Amazigh Literature in Translation
The MULOSIGE project (Multilingual Locals & Significant Geographies) has put together a collection of resources on Amazigh literature in translation.
IPAF Judging Chair Announces 2021 Shortlist ‘Rivaling the Best Books of the Prize’
In the video, judging chair Chawki Bazih said that although there the novels submitted to the prize were fewer in number than in previous years, they were of a high quality, “rivaling the best books of the prize since its inception.”
Alhadi Ali Radi’s ‘The Metal Bird’
“We marched in a straight line, guided by Khalil, the eldest among us.”
An Excerpt from Mahmoud Shukair’s ‘Me, My Friend, and the Donkey’
A humorous donkey detective novel for young adults, set in and around Jerusalem.
New Fiction in Translation: ‘Naked Robot’
“Yet none of us could object, as that was the way things were; these were the laws of our society, and we were completely satisfied with them. I didn’t know whether we had a choice in this satisfaction, but I didn’t like to tire my mind thinking about it.”