Near the end of the excerpt, as Nour falls asleep, she thinks about how her own father "in a matter of days, transformed into an entirely different person."
A Search for Beauty and Appreciation: Kay Heikkinen on Translating ‘Velvet’
" I will never look at rain the same way I used to; the author talks about it as if it were a living being with a will, attacking the earth, and how it has an effect on the streets."
Sunday Submissions: ‘Strange Horizons’ Call for Palestinian Speculative Fiction
They are open for submissions through January 31, 2021.
Aida Bamia on Why ‘My First and Only Love’ Was Such An Emotional Translation Experience
" This novel was the most emotional for me to translate, as it also marked the end of a comfortable childhood for me and my siblings, and the beginning of a life in exile."
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: ‘Soliloquy of a Modern Faust’
"The wave of days rises / and recedes, bidding farewell to / shells of love and hate / upon the body / resounding with the echoes of words."
Friday Finds: 6 in Translation by Mahmoud Shukair
Shukair also appears today at 11 a.m. Eastern time (US) for a "Coffee & Books" session with Nur Masalha, in which they discuss Shukair's International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel Praise for the Women of the Family.
#PalestineWrites: Literature, Erasure, and Preservation
"Shukair stressed the important role Arab educational institutions play in keeping Palestinian literature alive."
Friday Finds: Ghayath Almadhoun’s ZEBRA-winning Filmpoem, ‘Évian’
"Like a visual representation of the unconscious it is a big unknowable that flows without a break, wave after wave, thought after thought, bearing the words of the poem.”
Fundraising Campaign: The Edward Said Libraries in Gaza
The new fundraising campaign, which seeks to raise $20,000 US, is not only to fund and support the library's existing projects, but also to start new ones.
Nathalie Handal, Susan Abulhawa Win Palestine Book Awards
The winners of the 2020 Palestine Book Awards were announced this evening in an online event.
Friday Finds: Mazen Maarouf on Humor and Violence
"Humor and violence were walking side-by-side in my neighborhood."
Interlink Signs English Rights for Novels by Asma Al Atawna, Hammour Ziadeh
There were also two agreements to publish in English: for Asma al-Atawna's debut coming-of-age novel, "Missing Picture," and Hammour Ziada's "Drowning."
