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
Kareem James Abu-Zeid: Making Imru al-Qays Sing and Soar
2022-11-24
By AJ Naddaff It’s been quite the hiatus since my last piece — but I’m pleased to return with three great interviews featuring important actors in the Arabic to English translation scene. First up is award-winning translator of poets and novelists Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Among his most recent accolades isContinue Reading
A Conversation with Hadiya Hussein and Barbara Romaine about ‘Waiting for the Past’
2022-11-23
“Wars shrouded every corner of our country with some painful tale, and I built Narjis’ character out of what happened to many.”Continue Reading
A Conversation with Palestine Book Award-winning Poet Mosab Abu Toha
2022-11-14
“Wordsworth talks about tranquility, but in Gaza there is no such sense of tranquility. You recollect these things in troubled times, in anxiety.”Continue Reading
Ahmad M. Ahmad on Translating Nathalie Handal into Arabic
2022-11-10
“The biggest difference is Nathalie’s poetic techniques are unfamiliar in Arabic. As a translator, I have tried to communicate these techniques faithfully, to preserve the poet’s tone and breath, to preserve the fine, close thread that connects the technique to the essence of the poem.”Continue Reading
