It was last November that Adam Talib gave his talk about “Translating for Bigots,” and this May that Africa is a Country wrote about “The Dangers of a Single Book Cover.” There is a lot more to be said about how Arabic literature (in translation) is jacketed, and how this packaging affects how we experience books.
Yasmina Jraissaiti and M Lynx Qualey — with the extraordinary help of a cadre of award-winning translators — have put together a selection of contemporary Lebanese writing.
Algiers’ International Festival of Literature and of Young People’s Literature (FELIV) opened on June 11 on Riadh El Feth’s esplanade and ran through June 20. Most evenings, the public was invited to two debates, where two guest speakers, guided by a moderator, discussed the role of literature.
The International Festival of Literature and Young People’s Literature (FELIV) opened in Algiers on June 11 and is set to close tomorrow. Three metro stations joined in the event.
Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Margaret Litvin tells us, is no westoxicated feminist liberal revolutionary. Thus, “his gender-based critique of Egyptian timophilia is all the more powerful for coming from a writer whose aesthetic and social leanings are actually rather conservative.”
ArabLit’s sister-site in Italian — editoriaraba, curated by Chiara Comito — interviewed Ada Barbaro, author of the new book La fantascienza nella letteratura araba or Science Fiction in Arabic Literature.
Fatin Abdal-Sabur attended the final event of this year’s Palestine Festival of Literature. She reflects on this and the previous fest.
The anticipated third and fourth volume of Humphrey Davies’ English translation of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s classic Leg Over Leg are now available. What’s in Volumes 3 and 4?
There are two “World Cup” literary games going on now, in parallel with the football matches.
