Call for Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly Winter/Spring 2020, THE ROAD
We prefer pitches to completed works; pitches should be in by January 18.
News
A List: Arabic Literature Forthcoming in Translation in 2020
From classics to contemporary murder mysteries, picture books to philosophical meditations, the Arabic literature we know about that is forthcoming in English translation in 2020.
A List: French Maghrebi Literature Forthcoming in Translation in 2020
2020 promises books from both Mahi and Aziz BineBine, as well as Kaouther Adimi, a classic by Driss Chraïbi, and one by Tahar Ben Jelloun.
ArabLit’s Top 10 Stories and Essays of 2019
The ten most-read stories and essays on ArabLit in 2019.
ALQ Contributor Ameer Hamad Takes Qattan Short-story Award, Co-Wins Poetry Prize
Each winner takes a $4,000 prize.
Remembering Authors and Translators Who Died in 2019
A few of the authors and translators who left us in 2019.
Print Editions of ArabLit Quarterly THE EYE, and a Poem
We also include a short poem from the issue by Mohammad Nassereddine, translated by Kaylee Lockett.
Friday Finds: ‘So Why Did I Defend Paul Bowles?’
In the New York Review of Books, Hisham Aidi writes about Paul Bowles, Tangier, repression, Orientalist distortion, and the persistence of myth.
December 25: Remembering Salah Eissa
“Orabi Hassan, the first of his new neighbours that Hasballah got to know in Maskoubiya, was a short-statured young man with black hair, honey-coloured eyes and light-brown skin.”