Short Fiction: ‘Living in Songs’
“My dad woke me up at dawn, asking if I’d done anything stupid. He repeated his question as if he were addressing me from another world, about the nature of the calamity I had caused.”
Fiction
Friday Finds: New Issue of ‘The Common’ Features 9 Stories from Morocco
“They’ll be having a virtual Issue 21 launch party on May 6 at 7 pm EDT.”
Short Story: Amal Al Banna’s ‘The Drowned’
“The superstitious say the spirits live at night, and that they even take over the roads, especially during the long winter nights. Thunder, they say, is nothing but the sound of their fighting, and lightning the blood from their endless wars.”
New from Hoopoe Fiction, An Excerpt of ‘My First & Only Love’
“Spies were everywhere.”
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.”