Authors Who Left Us in 2024
This list is not meant to be comprehensive. However, we’ll note that — while there are surely many more poets and writers who have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and […]
Lit Lists
A Look Back: Arabic Literature Published in Translation in 2024
By ArabLit Staff This year, we have brought lists of literary works translated from Arabic to English, as well as to French, German, Malayalam, and to Portuguese. Thanks to the […]
Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story Announces 2025 Longlist
DECEMBER 16, 2024 — The Kuwait-based Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story yesterday announced its ten-book longlist, which comprises short-story collections by writers from seven Arab countries, with the […]
Writing to Survive: Extending the Discussion with Gazan Poets
Below is an extension of our editor Nashwa Nasreldin’s essay at New Lines, “Gazan Poets Write to Survive.“ By Nashwa Nasreldin When I first started writing this feature for New […]
Holiday Giving, 2024
By ArabLit Staff, with the wider community We have, in the past, run holiday-gift listicles. This year, we focus on gifts where profits go to community support, mutual aid, and […]
Forthcoming Nov 2024: Classics, New and Old
In November 2024, two deceased giants of Arabic literature — Elias Khoury and Radwa Ashour — have new English translations of their work. In Ashour’s case, her classic Granada is […]
Understanding Medieval Morocco and Granada in 22 Reads
OCTOBER 15, 2024 — Mohamed Seif El Nasr’s debut novel, Then He Sent Prophets, is out today from Daraja Press. This striking novel, set between fourteenth-century Morocco and Spain, follows […]
Forthcoming October 2024: Fiction from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and More
This list is incomplete and limited to what we’ve been told about or discovered; if your book should be here, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. […]
Karima Ahdad, Nasser Rabah, & Azza Abulanwar Win 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prizes
ArabLit and Komet Kashakeel announce the winners of the inaugural Arabic Flash Fiction Prize. كريمة أحداد وناصر رباح وعزة أبو الأنوار يفوزون بجوائز القصص الومضية العربية لعام 2024 SEPTEMBER 15, […]