Published in 2023: Arabic Literature in Translation
This year, we have lists of literary works translated from Arabic to English, to German, to Portuguese, and to Malayalam.
Lit Lists
Authors and Translators Who Left Us in 2023
This is only a partial list of the influential authors, translators, and scholars of Arabic literature whose deaths we marked in 2023; we continue to mark the losses in Gaza. […]
Palestinian Literature for Middle Grade and YA Readers: 14 Recommended Books
Earlier this month, we reviewed & recommended nine Palestinian picture books. This week, we’re recommending both middle grade novels (for ages 8-108) and young-adult novels (for ages 13-113). Another list […]
On Queer-positive Sonic Expression and Activism in Palestine: 10 Songs
By an ArabLit contributing writer The current crisis in Palestine is humanitarian. It’s not queer. Not feminist. It’s a crisis of more than 14,000 dead, more than 6,000 of them […]
Palestinian Poems with and for the Now
This list is a beginning. Please borrow and/or expand it. You can find more poems at this Word doc. There is also this beautiful PDF, which includes additional resources. Rasha Abdulhadi That Nation […]
Reading Palestinian Children’s Literature, Recommending Picture Books
Reviews by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Ekram Abdelgawad, and Elisabet Risberg Translations from the Swedish by Shaun Whiteside, Faye Wikner, and Eva Apelqvist Palestinian picture books — like picture books in […]
Forthcoming November 2023: Two by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan, ‘East Jerusalem Noir,’ ‘1970’
Book publication dates shift, and thus we are supplementing the annual list of forthcoming literature in translation with monthly lists, which we hope are more accurate. If you know of […]
Shortlist of 2023 ArabLit Story Prize Features ‘Myriad Mythologies’, the Will to Survive, and ‘Edgy, Memorable’ Voices
OCTOBER 30, 2023 — We are pleased to announce the three short fictions that this year’s judges have selected for the shortlist of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize. All three […]
Remembering a Giant: 5 by Khaled Khalifa
On September 30, 2023, Syrian novelist and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa died suddenly, reportedly of cardiac arrest, at age 59. Khalifa — one of the towering and beloved literary voices of […]