This year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction went to debut novelist Mohamed Alnaas for his examination of masculinity, Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table.
Read moreTODAY: The Englishing of Hisham Bustani’s ‘Monotonous Chaos’
Later today, ArabLit hosts author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
Read moreDebut, Virtual DC Arab Literature Festival Opening May 17
The first-ever “Narrating the Middle East: DC Arab Literature Festival” is set to open May 17 and 18 with a series of events accessible to those online around the world.
Read moreSunday Submissions: Three (!) Book/Translation Awards
The Palestine Book Awards, the AALITRA Translation Awards, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are all open for submissions.
Read moreLit & Found: Three Short Stories by Sudanese Writer Sabah Sanhouri
For this week’s Lit & Found, we continue our focus on Sudanese authors. Over at her website, sabahsanhouri.com, Sudanese poet and fiction writer Sabah Sanhouri has posted a number of […]
Read moreRecommended: The Common’s Palestine Collection
Next Wednesday, The Common magazine will launch their twenty-third issue. This issue features a special section that includes ten short stories by Palestinian authors, including Samira Azzam’s “The Roc Flew over Shahraban,” translated by Ranya Abdel Rahman, from a collection of Azzam’s stories, Out of Time, (finally) forthcoming this fall.
Read moreSunday Submissions: Mizna Black SWANA Issue & Summer Interns
Mizna is seeking submissions for its Black SWANA issue as well as applicants for its summer internships.
Read moreComing Online: Archive of Latin American Arabic Newspapers
Earlier this month, the North Carolina-based Khayrallah Center announced that, through its partnership with USEK Library in Lebanon, the center would be adding digital periodicals from USEK’s Latin American collection to their online searchable database of Arabic newspapers published in the Americas.
Read moreSunday Submissions: BCLT Summer School
Admissions are open for the International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School 2022.
Read more