Friday Films: ‘Adrift on the Nile,’ Based on a Novel by Mahfouz
“How significant is a bunch of chitchat on the Nile?”
Poetry
Translator, Critic, and Scholar Georges Tarabichi, 77
“I will not say farewell; generations are awaiting an appointment with his works and great translations.”
The Murder of Syrian Poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani
“Reports emerged in recent days that both al-Aani and his son were killed after IS accused them of ‘apostasy’. “
Coming in Time for #Shakespeare400: Four Arab Hamlet Plays
The collection also includes an autobiographical sketch by Mahmoud Aboudoma, “Gamlet” is Russian for “Hamlet.”
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘If I Were a Hunter’
If a hunter I were
I’d give the gazelle
a chance, and another,
and a third, and a tenth,
to doze a little.
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“No one says to the olive tree: How beautiful you are!”
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘Dying for Free’
“and the arms of spilled blood call to me: come!”
Happy Un-International-Women’s Day: 9 Works by Arabophone Women
And, last, the “Manifesto Against the Woman.”
And the Prize for Women in Arabic Translation Goes to… No One?
“Crunching the numbers is just a start towards addressing — and redressing — the disparity.”