Lit & Found: TMR Double Summer Issue
On July 2, The Markaz Review published their 2023 double summer issue featuring many brilliant writers, translators, and artists, including former and current ArabLit contributors.
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Lit & Found: A Discussion with Translator Leri Price about ‘Planet of Clay’
“Researching the context of the novel helps me as a translator.”
Lit & Found: ‘How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World’
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dima Ayoub remembers the late Salma Khadra Jayyusi, who died this April at the age of 100.
Lit & Found: Selected Poems by Joyce Mansour
Next month, City Lights is publishing a collection of poems by the Jewish Egyptian surrealist poet Joyce Mansour.
Lit & Found: ‘Country of Words’ Podcast on Palestinian Literature
Earlier this week, the “PalREAD – Country of Words” project announced the launch of the debut episode of their new podcast.
Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’
“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.”
Lit & Found: ‘The Gifts of Movement,’ a Talk with Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous
“I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.”
Lit & Found: ‘The Wondrous World of Omar El-Zeenni’
“Oh bride in the tiny grave”
Lit & Found: Inaam Kachachi on ‘The Night Baghdad Fell’
” 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.”