On Abjjad’s Free Ebooks for Gaza
By Olivia Snaije In May, Gaza author and translator Anas Samhan tweeted a request, asking whether anyone knew people who worked at Abjjad, the Jordanian e-book app. People in Gaza […]
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On Translating ‘Small, Shining Moments of Crystalline Beauty’
By Tugrul Mende Earlier this year, World Editions published Samar Yazbek’s Where The Wind Calls Home, translated by Leri Price. It centers a young soldier as he lays dying from […]
ArabLit & Komet Kashakeel Open Submissions for 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prize
قراءة صوتية عبر الحدود: مسابقة قصص ومضية باللغة العربية ٢٠٢٤ ArabLit is teaming up with كومة كشاكيل│Komet Kashakeel on a new Arabic flash fiction contest, with the support of a […]
Launch Event Today: ‘Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!’
We invite all our readers and supporters around the world to join us at 2 p.m. EST, 7 p.m. UK, 8 p.m. CET, 9 p.m. Cairo/Gaza for the launch of […]
Remembering Badr Bin Abdulmohsin, ‘Poet of Light’
By Moneera Al-Ghadeer My beloved has a smile that humbles the light. Her forehead eclipses the moonlight— If a poet’s passing moves nations, then the most celebrated Saudi poet, Badr […]
Novel by Palestinian Prisoner Basim Khandaqji Wins 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
APRIL 28, 2024 — Judges today announced the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Basim Khandaqji’s قناع بلون السماء (A Mask, the Color of the Sky). The announcement […]
Reem Bassiouney Wins 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her ‘Fatimid Trilogy’
APRIL 4, 2024 — Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced their 2024 winners today. The list was led by the high-profile literature category, which went to Reem Bassiouney’s […]
Joyce Mansour’s ‘Emerald Wounds’ Makes Griffin Poetry Prize’s 2024 Longlist
March 21, 2024 – The Griffin Poetry Prize — one of the world’s largest and most celebrated poetry prizes — yesterday announced their 2024 longlist. Among the longlistees was Egyptian […]
‘The Silent Poets’: Three Poems by Da’ad Haddad
The iconic Syrian poet Da’ad Haddad (1937-1991) was known by fellow Syrian artists in her lifetime, but — as Ibtihal Rida Mahmood wrote in a profile of the poet — […]