Extend Your Summer with the New ArabLit Quarterly: The Sea
Includes the perfect hot-and-sweet late-summer story from Muhammad al-Hajj, in pitch-perfect translation by Yasmine Zohdi.
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‘Antarah’s ‘War Songs’ Makes NTA Longlist
This is the second Library of Arabic Literature title to make an NTA longlist.
Between Green and Blue: A Conversation with Abdallah Zrika
“Poetry, for me, seeks that which is foundational, a negation of the difference between the word and the thing.”
In Short: 31 Days of Women in Translation
August was Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), and each day on ArabLit, we ran writing about women authors whose work was — or should be — in translation. Here, the 2019 essays, creative writing lists, and more gathered in one place.
#TranslateThis: 10 Arab Authors Recommend Books by Women Writers
For the last day of Women in Translation Month, ArabLit contributing editor Sawad Hussain asked Arab authors around the world to recommend their favorite women writers: Ten authors gave nods to […]
Friday Finds: ‘The Memoirs of Cinderella’s Slipper’
“The following day Cinderella had set out in it for a job interview at a company. She’d stormed out of the house, hoping to escape her stepmother’s tyranny by getting a job and leaving home for good.”
The Ruins of the Future: Speculative Fiction in Arabic
“Science fiction is both a mode of engagement and act of resistance by those who are continually cast as alien in their homeland.”
In/for Translation: 5 Arab Women’s Memoirs
Memoirs by women, written in Arabic, recommended by Arab authors, scholars, and publishers.
5 More #WiTMonth Reads from Lebanon’s Feminist Library
“It has been a very busy year for KW and the Feminist Library.”