Cat Tales: 9 Short Stories That Center Felines
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 […]
Lit Lists
A Look Back: Iconic Egyptian Writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
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 […]
Forthcoming June 2024: Classic Fiction, Poetry of Trauma, Short Fiction, & More
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 […]
Recommendations: On the New Wave of Memoirs from Iraq
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 […]
Forthcoming May 2024: A Return to Baghdad, an Arab Spring Prison Memoir, and More
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 […]
Forthcoming April 2024: Palestinian Prison Literature, Queer Refugees, Bedouin Poetry, & More
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. The Screams of War: Selected Poems, by Akram […]
Forthcoming March 2023: New Poetry, Epic Tales of Exile, Stories of Lost Children, and More
As always, there may be books we have missed. If there are, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. Out of Gaza, ed. Atef Alshaer and Alan […]
Forthcoming Feb 2024: ‘Girl Detective Meets 1001 Nights,’ ’15 Poets,’ & a New Syrian Novel
Each month, we preview Arabic books forthcoming in English translation, with a few exceptions; as here, we also list Gazan novelist Atef Abu Saif’s Don’t Look Left. As always, if […]
Eight Publishers Bringing Out Gazan ‘Diary of a Genocide’ in 7 Languages
By ArabLit Staff Political scientist and multi-award-winning novelist Gazan Atef Abu Saif — author of the moving The Drone Eats with Me, an account of the 2014 bombardment of Gaza — […]