Farewell to Mohammad Al-Amin
The Echoes of Struggle and Resilience: Sudanese Bid Farewell to Mohammad Al-Amin, Musical Maestro and Emotional Virtuoso By Lemya Shammat Born on February 20, 1943, in the heart of Wad […]
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Update: Poet Mosab Abu Toha Released by Israeli Army in Gaza
NOVEMBER 21, 2023 — Multiple sources announced Tuesday afternoon that the Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha, who had been kidnapped by the Israeli Army in Gaza as he was fleeing […]
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2024 Longlists
NOVEMBER 17, 2023 — The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the 2024 longlists in several categories, including literature, young author, and children’s literature categories. They also announced the longlist […]
AlMultaqa Prize for Arabic Short Stories Announces 2024 Longlist
NOVEMBER 16, 2023 — The Kuwait-based AlMultaqa Prize for Arabic Short Stories has announced their ten-book longlist for the 2023-24 awards cycle. According to organizers, the ten books were selected from […]
Mohamed-Salah Omri to Lead a Series of Seminars on ‘Literary Palestine’
NOVEMBER 14, 2023 — Starting tomorrow, Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford, is set to lead and coordinate a series of online & in-person seminars […]
In Conversation: Palestinian Poet Olivia Elias
On September 28, 2023, around book-launch events in Brooklyn, Palestinian poet Olivia Elias — based in France — sat down with translators Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert to talk […]
National Translation Award in Poetry Goes to Robyn Creswell for Translation of Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold’
November 12, 2023 — Yesterday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of their 2023 prose and poetry awards, as part of the organization’s annual conference. This year’s National Translation […]
Two Translations from Arabic Shortlisted for 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has announced their 2023 shortlist, which includes two books translated from Arabic: the powerful work of literary reportage What Have You Left Behind, by Bushra […]
Sudanese Sound Poet Kamal Elgizouli Dies ‘After a Life Full of Giving’
NOVEMBER 6, 2023 — Sudanese sound poet and human-rights lawyer Kamal Elgizouli, whose work “pops and bristles with his iconic and vibrant marriage of pictorial and auditory,” died in the early […]