“It doesn’t feel like an Arabic novel any more to me, now that it’s translated,” Hosam Aboul-ela said. “it feels like a really unique novel of Marxist international revolution.”Continue Reading
“I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.”Continue Reading
“Oh bride in the tiny grave”Continue Reading
” I am not even sure that for my generation the hope of a homecoming is still realistically there. However, a novelist cannot be constrained to the limitations of reality; a novelist has to have a hole in the wall to see the light of the day; a novelist needs to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel somehow, because this is the way for the novelist to keep on writing their narratives.”Continue Reading
Last month, a new and re-imagined Souffles launched an online publication and platform with a credo of “Decolonizing Decoloniality.”Continue Reading
“I sat in the shade at the tram stop, smoking a cigarette and watching the heavy traffic that clogged the street.”Continue Reading
Over at Kotobli, they have posted a new list; this time, of Sudanese novels through time. The list was curated by Sudanese-American writer Razan Idris.Continue Reading
Readers will not be surprised to hear about the preponderance of Russian works and Arabic classics, nor that the review mentions the appearance of only one listed book by a woman author — Rose Al-Youssef’s memoirs. Continue Reading
The British Centre for Literary Translation has announced that their Arabic writer-in-residence this summer will be Bothayna Al-Essa, who will join workshop leader Nariman Youssef at their annual literary translation summer school.Continue Reading
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