Friday Finds: A New Translation of Amal Dunqul’s ‘The Book of Exodus’
“O you, standing on the verge of the massacre, / Brandish your weapons!”
Lit & Found
Friday Finds: Dreams of Iman Mersal and Sargon Boulus
Two new dream poems have recently appeared in translation, online.
Friday Finds: Jalal al-Ahmadi in English, Croatian, French, and Italian
Now I sit alone /
around a circular table /
Now I sit circularly /
around myself
Friday Finds: Ahmed Naji, ‘Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison’
“Around a century later, in Cairo, during the obscenity trial of my novel Using Life, the assistant attorney for the prosecution challenged my defense attorney and the respected literary figures we had called as witnesses to read a section of my novel out loud.”
Listen: ‘Writing Through Crisis | كتابة الأزمة’ Podcast Series
Writing Through Crisis is a podcast series that, according to organizers, “explores the possibility of recovery through language.”
Friday Finds: Adania Shibli, Haytham el-Wardany, and Sinan Antoon in ‘Specimen’
“Assuming that words’ eyes have also been gouged, this dossier asks: How can literature assist us in reclaiming the capacity to imagine a less monstrous form of togetherness today?”
Online Now: 17 New Arabic Stories from Emerging Authors
“The stories center creation, missed opportunities, romance and memory, stuck-ness and entrapment, language and identity, patriarchies and colonialisms.”
Friday Finds: The Dialects of Oil & Rain
At the end of last month, three writers — Mona Kareem, Deepak Unnikrishnan, and Krupa Ge — talked about translation, transience, the Gulf, belonging, and more.
Friday Finds: Saniya Saleh’s ‘Autumn of Freedom’
“Beirut / I dreamed you were invaded / and awoke to the noise of destruction”