A Playlist for Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s ‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’
Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy asked Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel for a playlist of Bedouin songs that readers can listen to as they devour The Men Who Swallowed the Sun.
Lit Lists
Coming in February: Eleventh-century Medical Satire and Fiction From Eritrea
This month: Ibn Butlan’s ‘The Doctors’ Dinner Party’ and Haji Jabir’s ‘Black Foam’
Forthcoming 2023: Arabic Literature in English Translation
A selection of the Arabic novels, poetry collections, short-story collections, and classic works forthcoming in 2023.
ArabLit’s 10 Most-read Stories, Essays, and Poems of 2022
Removing the promotion of new issues of ArabLit Quarterly magazine, the top ten most-read pieces of 2022.
Published in 2022: Arabic Literature in Translation
This year, we have lists of literary works translated from Arabic to English, to German, to Portuguese, and to Malayalam.
Our Contributors’ Favorite Reads of 2022
We sent out a note to editors and contributors asking for favorite reads from 2022.
Authors and Translators Who Left Us in 2022
We look back at a few of the influential authors whose deaths we marked in 2022. February 2022 Moroccan author Driss El Khouri died in his home in Salé. He was […]
5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.
A Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam’s ‘Out of Time’
“When I asked when they sang this song, they said: ‘at weddings!’”