Sunday Submissions: ‘Wasafiri’ Looks For Editors at Large
UK-based literary magazine, Wasafiri, is calling for applications from the Middle East to their Editors at Large program.
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Announcing: Some Changes at ArabLit.org & New Submission Guidelines
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Sunday Submissions: Call for Paper Proposals on ‘Wombs and Tombs’
Literary scholars Roxanne Douglas and Layla AlAmmar are calling for abstracts for a special issue on “Wombs and Tombs: Hauntings and Generational Trauma in Arab Women’s Writing,” to be submitted by July 29, 2022.
Coming in July: Books by Joumana Haddad, Jabbour Douaihy & Ghassan Kanafani
Coming in July, books from Lebanon and Palestine.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Samandal’
Beirut-based comic magazine Samandal is calling for submissions for their 18th issue.
Ghareeb Asqalani, a Founder of Gazan Literature, Dies at 74
Ghareeb Asqalani, a Palestinian novelist and short-story writer who Atef Abu Saif called a representative of “the generation that founded the short story in Gaza in the 1970s and 1980s,” died in Gaza on Tuesday.
New Short Fiction: Mansour El-Souwaim’s ‘The Gizzard Tree’
Editor’s note: We share this story as part of our ongoing “In Focus: Sudan” section, which you can find at arablit.org/sudan. * The Gizzard Tree By Mansour El-Souwaim Translated by […]
‘Sindbad Jeunesse,’ a Bilingual French/Arabic Collection for Children, Set to Launch in September
Readers of Arabic and French will be pleased to know that French publisher Actes Sud’s Arabic literature imprint, Sindbad — which is now in its 50th year — is set to launch a bilingual collection for children.
Sunday Submissions: Call for Papers on “Who Reads Modern Arabic Literature, How and Why?”
Marburg University, Germany, is calling for papers for an interdisciplinary conference focussing on the readership of modern Arabic literature.