5 To Look for in August 2018
Five books to look for in August 2018.
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Reading Arabic in Aarhus
Rabie described Aarhus as “a very quiet place, with nearly no people or cars (compared to Cairo)“.
Charif Majdalani’s ‘Moving the Palace’ Makes 2018 NTA Longlist
“No Arabic books made the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose, organized by the American Literary Translators Association.”
Sunday Submissions: Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship
“This scholarship is open to Palestinian-American youth and Palestinian youth residing in the US, ages 18-25.”
The 2 Arab Writers Up for the Alt Literary Nobel
“It is a sort of world literature where the world is tightly focused on how the literary arts — mostly the novel — lives and breathes in Swedish and English, and, to a lesser extent, French.”
Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘Shatila Stories’
“Chaos everywhere. Thundering sounds rip through my ears. I blink and blink again. I take snapshots with my eyes. Racing feet, dragging feet; old people, young people; cars of different colours, of different shapes; grey sky, swaying trees.”
4 Different Covers for ‘In the Sabaya Market’
Which is the “right” cover for Dunya Mikhail’s “In the Slave Market”?
Review: ‘Pay No Heed to the Rockets’
“In just a little over 200 pages, Di Cintio introduces us to dozens of writers, each living a different creative life in cities ranging from Ramallah to Haifa to Gaza to Jerusalem.”
4 ‘PEN Translates’ Awards Go To Arabic Titles
Also for the first time this year, the majority of winning titles are by women. These include books by Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun and Syrian Dima Wannous.