Although we generally focus on literature in translation, this encompasses literature written by Palestinians in any language (and a few additional titles at the end). Please let us know if you have books to add. Note that by “Fall 2025” we mean any book released September – December. Generally speaking, the list is in approximate order of release date. Corrections welcomed.
New titles in translation set for publication in September 2025 include an anthology of Palestinian poetry and speculative fiction, a work of war journalism, and more.
Earlier this year, we highlighted seven Arab women writers whose writings, and sometimes person, were erased, not forgotten. In response, we received many fantastic suggestions by ArabLit readers for other women who should be included in this list. We assemble here another five women writers who have been marginalized, erased, or whose life has been cut short by illness or suicide, but whose words live on.
Since 2014, the month of August has been celebrated as Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth). And like the month itself, translation sits in that “odd uneven time,” a liminal space where language and meaning can be negotiated, reclaimed, or even appropriated. When it comes to the women who inhabit this space, as authors and as translators, the liminality of that space feels like a fertile ground for reclaiming language, narrative, and the power of truth-telling.
Books forthcoming in July 2025 include a long-awaited prose work by Salim Barakat, Abdessalam Benabdelali on translation, poetry by Samer Abu Hawwash, and an anthology of Palestinian short fiction.
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know.
To accompany Sally El Haq’s moving essay on rediscovering Alifa Rifaat, we have assembled a list of seven Arab women authors whose writings, and sometimes person, were erased, censored, or marginalized from what might have been — in a different world — their rightful places in literary memory.
Arabic works newly out in translation in May 2025 include two award-winning, a work of eleventh-century invective (and fourteenth-century explication), and Syrian short fiction.
Khaled Mansour shared his list of memoirs by Arab women, written or translated into Arabic, on a new episode of BULAQ: Looking In the Mirror, Arab Women’s Memoirs. The list […]
