Launching Tomorrow: ‘Our Women on the Ground’
“It is hard to imagine a male journalist — or a woman journalist who has parachuted in, who surely would not have brought her children — writing about conflict in the same way.”
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Classics, Revisited: Enayat al-Zayyat’s ‘Love and Silence’
“The novel ends with the July 23 revolution.”
What’s in a ‘First’?: Notes on Arabic Literature by Women in 2019
This was not the first of the firsts. Nor was it, unfortunately, the last.
List of Lists: The Strange World of Recommended Egyptian Fiction
What appears on US and UK newspapers’ and magazines’ recommended lists of Egyptian fiction?
Coming Early 2020: ‘Granta’ Anthology in Arabic
“We are excited to announce that Mahmoud Muna, the bookseller at the prestigious Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, will publish an anthology of short fiction by Palestinian writers in partnership with Granta.”
Bulaq 2.0: Surveying Your Podcast Thoughts
To that end, we’ve posted a very short 5-question survey.
‘Palestine Writes Back’: New US Festival of Palestinian Literature
“Palestine Writes Back will highlight the richness of Palestinian art for a North American audience who may not have had the opportunity to experience this work due to lack of linguistic access (limited translations of Arabic literature), the severe restrictions on movement of Palestinians, and the censorship and repression of Palestinian speech.”
Abdellatif Laâbi, Sahar Khalifeh Finalists for 2020 Neustadt
Moroccan poet, memoirist, and translator Abdellatif Laâbi and Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh have both been named finalists for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Emily Drumsta on Translating Mahfouz’s ‘Sufi Noir’
“I was trying to explore what I’ve been calling ‘Mahfouz’s Sufi Noir,’ to see how and why he was drawn to both crime-writing and Sufi storytelling and the same time. When I read ‘Culprit Unknown,’ I couldn’t believe how much it was like a detective story—and that it hadn’t been translated yet!”