Coming in August: Historical Fiction from Egypt and Libya & an Iraqi Memoir
Coming in August: Books by Sonallah Ibrahim, Ibrahim al-Koni, and Faleeha Hassan.
News
Sunday Submissions: Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology
Publisher Haymarket Books is calling for contemporary poems by Palestinian-identifying poets for a new anthology.
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.
Announcing: Some Changes at ArabLit.org & New Submission Guidelines
We’ve been gradually moving away from daily updates, and this will now continue, as we focus on curating content that is richer and broader in scope.
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 […]