In the end, the author gives us two possible endings. Do we choose to save Wadoud and send him outside Iraq to have a new life and a new chance outside Iraq, where he will publish his index? Or will Namir publish the index after Wadoud’s life ends?
Nearly twently years’ worth of Arabic literature in translation — as well as reviews, interviews, and event reports — have been put online in a searchable archive: Banipal, the only […]
Presses shifting gears, agents inviting submissions from Muslim writers, at least one author turning down invitations to come to the US, and other #LIISSSY disruptions.
This short text by Iraqi short-story writer and playwright Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright, has been circulating again on social media.
A glimpse of five recent narrative projects that you can read online.
“China will have a bigger booth this year…and has expanded its participation in the fair to an unprecedented extent.”
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“The annual residency, which launched this week, is set to continue through April 21.”
“Ten years after his release, to honor his comrades who died in prison, he wrote a memoir, ‘Tazmamort.'”
