Sunday Submissions: Theatre Translator Mentorship
However, because this year’s mentorship program will be delivered digitally, they are also accepting applications from translators outside London/the UK.
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‘Heal Me with Disease’
“I’m wrong? Please. / I’m ill? Heal me with disease.”
Bulaq 49: Locked-in Lit
In our forty-ninth episode of Bulaq, we talk about a few new books — ones that provide a welcome escape, and ones that seem particularly daunting — and about how hard it is to write, read, think and imagine the future right now.
10 Arabic ‘Nostalgia Plays’ Come to Netflix
Netflix is releasing a series of Arabic plays before Eid al-Fitr.
Lebanese Poet and Essayist Salah Stétié, 90
The Lebanese poet, essayist, art critic, and diplomat Salah Stétié died last night in Paris, his family announced.
Syrian Playwright Riad Ismat, 73
Syrian theatre artist Riad Ismat died earlier this month after contracting COVID-19 in Chicago, where he was part of Northwestern’s “Scholars at Risk” program. He was 73.
Etel Adnan and Sarah Riggs Win Griffin Poetry Prize for ‘Time’
“What is astonishing here is how she manages to give weariness its own relentless energy.”
Arabic Translation Challenge #2: ‘Do Not Scold Me!’
“Cure me rather with the cause of my ill…”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Calling All Female Arab Writers’
The deadline is August 15, 2020.