FEBRUARY 26, 2024 — Organizers today announced that the first-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize, an international award for the translation of Arabic literature into English, goes to Marilyn Booth’s translation […]
Three new poetry collections gather work mostly written in the final months of 2023. Out now, from the Publishers for Palestine collective, is Poems for Palestine, a free booklet of […]
FEBRUARY 14, 2024 — The shortlist of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced today, at a press conference in Riyadh. The six-book shortlist was announced by this […]
FEBRUARY 7, 2024 — The Egyptian Society of Authors and Composers today announced the death of the poet and children’s book author Magdy Naguib, after a recent struggle with illness. […]
Special to ArabLit Passages Through Genocide (gazapassages.com) is an online project that collates and disseminates texts written by Gazans living through the current Israeli assault. Conceived and run by an anonymous […]
JANUARY 25, 2024 — Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are granted in eight categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, […]
By ArabLit Staff Political scientist and multi-award-winning novelist Gazan Atef Abu Saif — author of the moving The Drone Eats with Me, an account of the 2014 bombardment of Gaza — […]
JANUARY 15, 2024 — This marks forty days since the Palestinian poet, editor, and educator Refaat Alareer was killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. Today, Publishers for Palestine are calling for a […]
JANUARY 8, 2024 — Organizers announced today that the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Luke Leafgren for his translation of Najwa Barakat’s Mister N, which […]
