Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim — one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries — died today, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced. He was eighty-eight.
Yesterday, English PEN announced that their flagship grant program, “PEN Translates,” was granting awards to 14 books from 10 publishers in 13 languages, including two Palestinian titles.
On July 19, 2025, the recently launched Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies announced a partnership with publishing house Fons Vitae under the general editorship of Mohammed Rustom.
Yesterday, the eight finalists for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe were announced, celebrating five works in translation and three works by Arab writers originally penned in French.
Prolific and influential Tunisian novelist Hassouna Mosbahi died this past Wednesday at the age of 75.
On September 15, 2025, ArabLit will launch ARABLITe, an online magazine devoted to Arabic literature and its translations into Spanish and other co-official languages, such as Catalan, Basque or Galician, and Guaraní, Quechua or Aymara.
An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.
Palestinian poet-translator Batool Abu Akleen took third place in the 2025 London Magazine Poetry Prize for her “Gunpowder.”
Mohamed Samir Nada’s The Prayer of Anxiety has won the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
