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Submissions to the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize will open as we cross the threshold between March 14 and 15.

For these lists-of-ten, ArabLit is interviewing scholars, critics, and translators, and other bibliocentrics about the Arabic Literature in translation they would recommend for US’s public libraries.

Hundreds of tongue-in-cheek messages were shared on social media on March 8. To record this historic day in Algerian politics and in the renewal of Algeria’s social fabric, I have gathered a number of March 8 banners shared on Twitter and Facebook.

“They chose to support a children’s book series from Jordan; a novel about a Sudanese woman whose lover goes to Syria to join ISIS; a Lebanese novel that centers on a company that specializes in romantic revenge; and a historical Palestinian novel focused on the lives of three women.”

Our second list of 10 for public libraries is from Tasnim Qutait — a postdoc at SOAS currently working on migration and security and a literary translator moving between Arabic-English-Swedish — and also the force behind Arab Hyphen: Arab Arts and Literature.

“Yes, he was king, and this room was the capital of his kingdom, and the roof was the rest of this great country.”