Lit & Found: Hilal Chouman’s ‘Sorrow in My Heart’
Sorrow in My Heart, recently published by Berlin-based Khan Aljanub, is the fifth novel by acclaimed Lebanese writer Hilal Chouman.
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Lit & Found: Hoda Barakat, Karim Kattan, and Haytham El Wardany Reflect on Films
The Berlinale Film Festival’s 2022 online catalogue includes authors’ reflections on the films, including reflections by acclaimed authors Hoda Barakat, Karim Kattan, and Haytham El Wardany. Hoda Barakat writes on […]
Lit & Found: ‘An Attempt to Remember My Face’
“Sometimes I think that if humans are allotted a fixed amount of life that’s distributed out over the course of their years, then maybe we used up our share in those moments of concentrated life that we imbibed so hungrily and so madly.”
Lit & Found: Five Poems by French-Algerian Poet Souad Labbize
“I don’t know what to make
of the reasons to love you
an early season
begins and ends
in the midst of another
we don’t even have to
change our clothes”
Lit & Found: ‘Taming the Immigrant, Musings of a Writer in Exile’
“I have found that obedience and conformity in the United States are not strictly enforced or heavily guarded by armed soldiers or prisons, instead they present as a whisper, a sound vibration that crashes into your consciousness where they transform into ants that proceed to slowly and gradually eat away at your insides until they ultimately deform you after which they proceed to build you back up and mold you into what the system determines what you should become.”
Lit & Found: Muhammad Aladdin’s ‘Season of Migration to Arkadia’
Egyptian writer Muhammad Aladdin’s short story “Season of Migration to Arkadia” (tr. Humphrey Davies) is available as a free e-book from publisher mikrotext.
Lit & Found: David Larsen on Translation ‘As a Constraint-based Form of Writing’
“As part of a series on poetry and translation for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books blog, scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature David Larsen delves into the conjunction that joins translation with poetry, the and between them.”
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous: Photos and Films
Dozens of of Ihsan Abdel Quddous’s (1919-1990) popular novels have been adapted to film, many of them popular and groundbreaking cinematic works in their own right.
Lit & Found: 5 of the Best Arab Comics & Graphic Novels of 2021
Over at Middle East Eye, Bahira Amin has put together an excellent list of five of the best comics and graphic-novel releases of 2021.