Naguib Mahfouz Medal Shortlist Celebrates Six Novels
AUGUST 30, 2024 — The American University in Cairo Press today announced the shortlist for the 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, eighteen years after the Nobel laureate’s passing. This […]
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Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning Novelist Somaya Ramadan Dies, 73
AUGUST 20, 2024 — Somaya Ramadan — a prominent literary critic, award-winning author, and translator of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own — died Monday night. She was 73. […]
Iraqi Writer Sabiha Shubbar Dies in Morocco
AUGUST 8, 2024 — The Iraqi novelist and short-story writer Sabiha Shubbar died on Saturday, August 3, 2024 in Morocco. She was 70. Several news sources reported that she died […]
Youssef, Jaquette Named Heads of Literary Organizations
JULY 31, 2024 — This week, the Poetry Translation Centre announced that Arabic literary translator and cultural worker Nariman Youssef will succeed Erica Hesketh as director of their educational center […]
Short Fiction: Mohamed al-Ashry’s ‘The Charcoal Garden’
This story, by Mohamed al-Ashry, was one of four shortlisted by judges Nariman Youssef, Adam Talib, and Jana Elhassan for the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize. As Talib said, “Climate change […]
7-book Shortlist for 2024 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
JULY 15, 2024 — On Saturday, July 13, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Arab World Institute announced the shortlist for the eleventh annual of Prix de la Littérature Arabe, […]
New Poetry from Wadih Saadeh’s Forthcoming Collection
Late this fall, Tenement Press will be bringing out a selection of work by the celebrated Lebanese-Australian poet Wadih Saadeh, titled A Horse at the Door. The book, forthcoming December […]
‘Workshops for Gaza’ Launches Joint Online Educational Series + Fundraiser
By ArabLit Staff JUNE 2024 — Earlier this month, a group of writers and educators launched “Workshops for Gaza,” and the first workshops are set to be taught in July […]
North Gazan Writer Yousri Alghoul on Fundraising for a Library
By ArabLit Staff Palestinian novelist Yousri Alghoul — who makes his home in north Gaza — turned his personal library into a community space in 2022. When it was destroyed […]