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 […]
Lit Lists
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 — […]
16 Free Zines from and about Palestine
The Boston-based activist organization Pleasure Pie has put together a collection of 10 free zines about Palestine. These free printable zines are available as PDFs, and Pleasure Pie suggests readers should, “Feel […]
A Curated List of 20 Palestinian Short Stories, in Translation, Online
Compiled by ArabLit Staff Below, we share twenty (plus) Palestinian short stories that are available in translation online, from across historic Palestine and beyond, by young writers such as Ameer […]
Arabic Lit In Translation: Forthcoming in 2024
This is a partial list based on canvassing publishers and translators. If you have something to add, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. January Strangers in […]