Summer of Lock-in Lit: Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Arsène Lupin’
2020-07-27
“Look, there’s no novels,” a voice suddenly boomed directly above my head. “We don’t sell novels.”Continue Reading
‘Place a Hope Beyond a Hope’: Devotional Literature as Literature
2020-07-23
“Devotional literature never gets viewed as literature because people assume it’s for devotional purposes.”Continue Reading
From ALQ’s Crime Issue: Meet the Banu Sasan
2020-07-09
Brad Fox called in from lockdown in Peru to read from — and discuss — his translation (or recovery? or adaptation?) of Abu Dulaf’s “Song of the Banu Sasan.”Continue Reading
Occupation + 100: Listen to This Issue’s Literary Playlist
2020-07-01
“The year is 2048, in Palestine. It’s one hundred years after the violent establishment of the state of Israel in 1948—an event known in the Arab world as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe,” forcing more than 700,000 Palestinians to flee their homes.”Continue Reading
Lock-in Literature: Tareq Emam’s ‘The Tale of the Woman with One Eye’
2020-06-08
“Long ago in the City of Walls, you could see the enormous mountain of dark-blue kohl towering over the city no matter where you stood.”Continue Reading
Lock-in Literature: Zakaria Tamer’s ‘The Flower’
2020-05-18
“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”Continue Reading
Lock-in Limited Release: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
2020-05-11
Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.Continue Reading
New Fiction in Translation: Bushra Fadil’s ‘Phosphorus at the Bottom of a Well’
2020-04-20
“Sa’ad’s death was thus complete and perfect.”Continue Reading
ArabLit Quarterly
2018-11-18
If you are interested in participating, please email info@arablit.org.Continue Reading
