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, […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 — Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died on Sunday at the age of 76, according to multiple news accounts. Author of the acclaimed Gate of the Sun, he […]
This week, award-winning Gaza-based Palestinian poet and artist Batool Abu Akleen was named the 2024 Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) poet-in-residence. MPT editor Ed Cottrell explained that the residencies “are […]
By ArabLit Staff What follows are fourteen books by Arab women — written by women from across the Maghreb and Mashreq, translated to English and published this year — that […]
Inspired by BookRiot’s recent list of new books in translation featuring cats, we revisit some of our favorite feline-focused short fictions. Egypt Egypt has many fictional cats, many of which […]
Yesterday, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s A Nose and Three Eyes appeared from Hoopoe Fiction, in Jonathan Smolin’s translation. In the foreword, which appeared yesterday on ArabLit, Hanan al-Shaykh writes about her […]
As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please put them in the comments or email us at info@arablit.org. A Nose and Three Eyes, by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, tr. Jonathan […]
Editor’s note: Publishers who are interested in Iraqi literatures will find more in our May Publishers Newsletter, out on May 15. By Hend Saeed In recent decades, memoir has burgeoned […]
This list may not be complete; if you have something to add, please put it in the comments or email us at info@arablit.org. At Rest in the Cherry Orchard, by […]
