10 Books: Animal Tales in Arabic Literature
This is a very subjective list of ten Arabic works of fiction that prominently feature animals, and that highlight the range of roles that animals have played in Arabic literature..
Lit Lists
A Translator’s Canon of Sudanese Literature
For our focus on Sudan, scholar, translator, and writer Adil Babikir highlights a few of Sudan’s most important literary greats.
Five to Celebrate International Prize for Arabic Fiction Winner Mohamed Alnaas
“Today, International Prize for Arabic Fiction chair of judges Shukri Mabkhout announced that Mohamed Alnaas was the prize’s 2022 winner for his debut novel, Bread for Uncle Milad’s Table. Here, five pieces — fiction, memoir, opinion, an interview, and a video — to celebrate Alnaas and his novel.”
Writers Select: New and Inventive Voices in Sudanese Literature
For this feature, we asked prominent Sudanese writers: If you were to choose 4-7 titles that would represent, to you, the most interesting books (perhaps experimental, challenging, or influential in some way) written by Sudanese writers in the last 10 years, what would they be? And (perhaps more importantly) why?
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Coming in May: Books by Maya Abu al-Hayyat, Jokha Alharthi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra & More
Coming in May: Poetry by Maya Abu al-Hayyat, novels by Najwa Barakat, Jokha Alharthi, Amir Tag Elsir, and more.
10 Works for 10 Years: Celebrating ‘Rusted Radishes’
Today, the American University in Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes celebrates its tenth year with the launch of its tenth issue.
Forthcoming in Translation in April 2022: Classical Mysticism, a Day in the Life of a Tunisian Professor, & More
Book publication dates shift, and thus we are supplementing the annual list of forthcoming literature in translation with monthly lists, which are hopefully more accurate.
On March 13, Poems for and after Mahmoud Darwish
“Perhaps you’re there now / You watch what’s happening from afar, / and with the silence of a god, / decide to do nothing.”
Books Forthcoming in Translation This Month: Time Traveling Children, Palestinian Memoir, Emirati Poetry, & More
“This month, we launch a new feature. At the start of each month, we’ll profile the literature forthcoming in translation that month.”