Earlier this month, we reviewed & recommended nine Palestinian picture books. This week, we’re recommending both middle grade novels (for ages 8-108) and young-adult novels (for ages 13-113). Another list […]
By an ArabLit contributing writer The current crisis in Palestine is humanitarian. It’s not queer. Not feminist. It’s a crisis of more than 14,000 dead, more than 6,000 of them […]
This list is a beginning. Please borrow and/or expand it. You can find more poems at this Word doc. There is also this beautiful PDF, which includes additional resources. Rasha Abdulhadi Incomplete List […]
Reviews by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Ekram Abdelgawad, and Elisabet Risberg Translations from the Swedish by Shaun Whiteside, Faye Wikner, and Eva Apelqvist Palestinian picture books — like picture books in […]
Book publication dates shift, and thus we are supplementing the annual list of forthcoming literature in translation with monthly lists, which we hope are more accurate. If you know of […]
OCTOBER 30, 2023 — We are pleased to announce the three short fictions that this year’s judges have selected for the shortlist of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize. All three […]
On September 30, 2023, Syrian novelist and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa died suddenly, reportedly of cardiac arrest, at age 59. Khalifa — one of the towering and beloved literary voices of […]
By ArabLit staff A decade ago, very few Arabic works in translation had been turned into audiobooks. Although the BBC often produced readings of individual short stories — as well […]
As a way of marking #WorldKidLitMonth (which you can follow at @worldkidlit and worldkidlit.org), we are profiling 10 publishers that have a focus on children’s literature in Arabic. While some […]
