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Friday Finds: ‘Dispatches from the Black Gulf by Momtaza Mehri’
“Housed here, these works were a lot closer to where they had been conceived and created than in London, New York or Berlin. Unlike the fate of their creators, theirs was a more survivable kind of exile. At least that’s what I kept telling myself.”
Works by Etel Adnan, Sinan Antoon, Khaled Khalifa Make 2020 BTBA Longlists
The Best Translated Book Awards today named its 2020 longlists for fiction and poetry.
Bulaq 46: ‘A Woman Shaped by Fear’
In “A Woman Shaped by Fear,” we talk about the Wannous’ haunting novel, in lucid, vibrant translation by Jaquette.
New Online Translated Fiction Book Club: Starts Today
Five small presses are kicking off a shared, Zoom-centered, international book club today.
Announcing the Next Two ‘ArabLit Quarterly’ Themes: CRIME and CATS
Those are two separate themes; we are not requesting contributions about criminal or crime-fighting cats; although, naturally, we’re open to anything that’s evocative, soul-cracking, un-put-downable, fun.
Literary Playlist: Songs for the Years of Lead
Among the features is a literary playlist for Youssef Fadel’s “Years of Lead” trilogy.
Release Party for First 2020 Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: The Road
If you cannot go to the road, this issue of ArabLit Quarterly (THE ROAD) will come to you.
Announcing: Judges for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize, Submissions Open
Submissions are set to open on March 15, 2020 and close on July 15, 2020.