It’s PUBLICATION DAY for ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2025: GRIEF
Starting today, you can find the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue in our online store (arablit.org/shop/), on Gumroad, and in select bookshops worldwide.
From ArabLit Quarterly
GRIEF Preview: Nasser Rabah’s ‘A Swarm of Ants’
The Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly is coming in three days — on April 30, 2025. Today, a poem from the issue in Wiam El-Tamami’s translation.
Announcing the Launch of our Spring 2024 Issue, with Majalla 28: ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’
Copies of ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2024 issue are available for sale through our Gumroad store, at Amazon, and in select bookshops. As always, if you need a free e-copy, email […]
Call for Submissions to Spring 2024 Issue: ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’
The theme of ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2024 issue is Gaza! Gaza! Gaza! Please send us your pitch or completed piece via this Google form or send an email to info@arablit.org. We […]
‘Matters of National Football’
In honor of today’s match, we’re running this essay from our beloved FOOTBALL issue, by Moroccan author Yassin Adnan, translated by Moroccan translator Hicham Rafik, with photographs by Moroccan photographer Omar Mesrar.
Summer Reads: ‘The Government Sea’
“When the central government announced a plan to rebuild what the war had devastated, the municipality put forth a request to establish a sea. Unlike other requests, which usually lingered in a state of neglect, tucked away in drawers, the central government responded right away, as they didn’t have any drawers in their offices in which to hide such paperwork.”
Summer Reads: ‘Solace for the Traveler and Entertainment for the Conversationalist’
“Such compilations were common. At a time when people could not entertain themselves with TV and thumb-wrecking scrolling on myriad social media platforms, compilations kept them company. These works tended to be written in small notebooks easy to carry in one’s pocket or satchel.”
Summer Reads: ‘The Limping Couch’
“It wasn’t just the Obesity Control Police. Everyone in town constantly challenged my humanity because of my weight. They called me an animal so many times that, for a moment, I thought I’d become one.”
Summer Reads: ‘How Moroccans Laugh’
“Through it all, Moroccans have maintained their ability to laugh at everything. Do we not have a well-known proverb that says, ‘Too much worrying makes you laugh?'”