Art Director Hassân Al Mohtasib on 5 Years of ALQ
“A good art director intentionally builds a library of images in his subconscious through reading and forgetting.”Continue Reading
“A good art director intentionally builds a library of images in his subconscious through reading and forgetting.”Continue Reading
“I expect this is a magazine for people who read widely, and they want something different and new.”Continue Reading
“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
“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
“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
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
“Wars shrouded every corner of our country with some painful tale, and I built Narjis’ character out of what happened to many.”Continue Reading
“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
“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
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