Author Haji Jaber & Translators Talk ‘Black Foam’
2023-02-07
” The truth is that the person who didn’t leave my mind is someone I didn’t talk to; rather, we kept looking at each other without speaking.”Continue Reading
Introducing Fikra Magazine, ‘A Project by Palestinians and for Palestinians’
2023-01-25
“Although we are a literary magazine, we are open to all art forms, especially those that experiment with and criticize the status quo.”Continue Reading
kotobli: A Book-discoverability Platform Aiming to ‘Showcase Arabic Books’
2023-01-03
“As a first step, readers interested in books from the Arab world or on the Arab world can discover books based on several features: discovering books according to an author’s gender or country of origin, finding books from a specific publisher or country (…), browsing through our book titles and thematic curations to find SWANA-specific subjects (e.g. Egyptian surrealism, prison literature).”Continue Reading
On the Sonallah Ibrahim Renaissance
2022-12-19
“I think there is also the question of who gets to write Egypt’s history, and who will maintain the archives and documents necessary to tell that history?”Continue Reading
Art Director Hassân Al Mohtasib on 5 Years of ALQ
2022-12-16
“A good art director intentionally builds a library of images in his subconscious through reading and forgetting.”Continue Reading
5 Years of ArabLit Quarterly: Founding Editor M Lynx Qualey on Beginnings and Endings
2022-12-16
“I expect this is a magazine for people who read widely, and they want something different and new.”Continue Reading
A Physician on the Nile Lives Among the Dead: A Talk with Tim Mackintosh-Smith
2022-12-13
“There is a scene where a woman is eating her husband’s thigh and she says, ‘It’s alright, he is my husband.’”Continue Reading
Extended Conversation: On Wishes, Translation, & Being ‘Deena Shubeik Lubeik’
2022-12-03
“There’s a real novelty to seeing modern Egyptian life illustrated like this because it’s not as common as people think and most of us haven’t grown up with it, and I know that because I enjoy it too. It’s the joy of representation in its most literal form; visual representation for the sake of its own existence.”Continue Reading
Luke Leafgren on Translation, Najwa Barakat, and Falling Out of Love With His Translations
2022-11-29
“I think great literature addresses perennial questions, things that we come back to time and again. Questions of identity and relationship, you know, who we are and how we relate to other people, or the world around us. This novel dives into those questions in a unique and interesting way.”Continue Reading
