Farkouh -- winner of a wide range of literary awards -- wrote and published over the course of five decades. A few of his works have appeared in English translation, most recently in the magazine The Common.
Jordanian Novelist Elias Farkouh Dies at 72
Jordanian author Elias Farkouh died today -- Wednesday, July 15 -- after an acute heart attack. He was 72.
Friday Finds: Two Short Works by Hisham Bustani, Tr. Thoraya El-Rayyes
"Yukio Mishima, why did you kill yourself like that?"
Summer of Lock-in Lit: Hisham Bustani’s ‘Eyes without a Face, or: Waiting with Billy Idol in Jordan’
"And over there, where there are no children, grandmothers or earth, it also did not mean a thing to me. My real homeland is: waiting.”
Friday Finds: ‘In Amman with Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)’
"Amman is originally a Roman city, and in its Roman era, it was built on seven hills like Rome."
Born on This Day: 6 to Read by Ghalib Halasa
"With so much to explore in his 7 novels, dozens of short stories, and scads of genre-crossing nonfiction that feels so relevant to our present day hopes and wars, the door is there, we need simply to walk through it."
Friday Finds: From Amjad Nasser’s ‘Petra’
The water that tells of life
also tells of the place.
Amjad Nasser, 1955-2019
According to multiple reports, Nasser died Wednesday. He was 64.
In Celebration of Amjad Nasser, a Poet Who ‘Mourns Himself While Still Alive’
This week, the literary journal "Akhbar al-Adab" dedicated an issue to Nasser and his work, which features essays by Ghassan Zaqtan, Tarek al-Tayeb, Qassim Haddad, Hoda Barakat, and others.
Online: 20 Translated Stories by Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani -- an award-winning Jordanian short-story author -- is one of the few practitioners of Arabic short stories who has been widely translated and published in non-specialized English-language literary magazines.
Fadi Zagmout on the Banning of ‘Laila and the Lamb’
"Unfortunately, banning books is a form of censorship that, nowadays, harms the book industry, limits creativity, and frustrates writers, but does not prevent the book from reaching the reader."
Samah Selim Wins $12.5K NEA Grant to Translate ‘Sultana’
"'Sultana' is Ghalib Halasa's last and most autobiographical novel."
