Fatma Qandil’s ‘Empty Cages’ Wins 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Qandil, who dedicated the award to Arab women writers, said that winning this prize proves that her long journey with writing “was not in vain.”
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Sunday Submissions: Soumou Magazine Palestine Issue
Soumou Magazine has opened calls for its Palestine issue. Palestinian creatives are called to submit their work by January 1, 2023.
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s ‘You Can Be the Last Leaf,’ Tr. Fady Joudah, Makes Inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Longlist
The National Book Critics Circle today announced the twelve-book longlist for their inaugural Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
Coming in December: Hussein Barghouthi’s Autobiographical ‘The Blue Light,’ Two Iraqi Novels, & More
This month: four new translations of Arabic novels from Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.
Three Novels Make 2022 Banipal Prize Shortlist
The shortlisted titles are Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s The Men Who Swallowed the Sun, translated by the late Humphrey Davies; Yassin Adnan’s Hot Maroc, translated by Alexander E. Elinson, and Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, translated by Robin Moger.
Winner of 2022 ArabLit Story Prize ‘Captures the Essence of What a Short Story Should Be’
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2022 ArabLit Story Prize are Belal Fadi and James Scanlan, for Scanlan’s translation of Fadl’s “The Kid Sheikh” (!الشيخ العَيِّل).
Yemeni Poet Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh, 1937-2022
Yemeni Poet Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh died today in Sana’a, according to multiple news outlets, after a struggle with illness. He was eighty-five.
Sunday Submissions: Trace Press Arabic Translation Workshop
Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi invite emerging and experienced Arabic-English translators, poets and writers to dive into the complexities and pleasures of literary translation.
Sunday Submissions: Kohl Journal
Kohl considers unpublished manuscripts of research that critically engage with existing literature and theories.