New Fiction in Translation: ‘The Cats’ by Mohamed El-Makhzangi
“And whenever they slipped past my door, I’d throw a folded-up piece of paper at them or, to make them panic, I’d pretend I was about to throw my book.”
Fiction
Friday Finds: Adania Shibli, Haytham el-Wardany, and Sinan Antoon in ‘Specimen’
“Assuming that words’ eyes have also been gouged, this dossier asks: How can literature assist us in reclaiming the capacity to imagine a less monstrous form of togetherness today?”
11 Healing Reads: Books for Dark Days
“But there are also books that find the holes and — at least sometimes, for some readers — patch us up.”
Online Now: 17 New Arabic Stories from Emerging Authors
“The stories center creation, missed opportunities, romance and memory, stuck-ness and entrapment, language and identity, patriarchies and colonialisms.”
WorldKidLit Month: 10 Translations from Arabic for Young Readers
A few years ago, it was hard to find any contemporary children’s literature translated to English from Arabic. Now, several new titles are being published each year. Here, a list of ten children’s books translated from Arabic for young readers.
New Lit: Baya Mahieddine’s ‘The Great Great Big Bird’
“Le Grand Zoiseau” narrates the story of a little girl who wants to marry, and, seeing her mother deny her the right, she takes matters into her own magic hands.
New Lit: Excerpt of Stella Gaitano’s ‘The Souls of Eddo’
This first Monday of Women in Translation Month, Sawad Hussain and Stella Gaitano share this excerpt from her novel The Souls of Eddo, winner of a PEN Translates Prize
Lock-in Lit Series: ‘The Big Battle of Mohandiseen’
“But after Ramadan, everything is permissible!”
From Ahmed Atallah’s ‘Mariam: A True Story’
“Mariam: A True Story” was written mostly in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, detailing the quiet love between a young Egyptian Christian man and an Egyptian Christian woman turned into a taboo by the society around them.