On Taha Hussein Day: 5 in Translation
Although Hussein’s works continue to be read and loved forty-odd years after his death, only a small corner of his broad oeuvre has been translated to English.
Poetry
‘Whose Doll Is It?’ Read from an Etisalat Award Winner
Taghreed Najjar’s Whose Doll Is This?, winner of 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the “Young Adult” category, is, Hend Saeed writes, the book you’ve been waiting to read.
Palestinian Playwright Dalia Taha Wins Royal Court Theatre Commission
“I think that Palestine has done a lot more for British theatre practitioners than we could ever do for them.”
Friday Finds: ‘Ode to Lebanon’
The video was taken on October 19, when Hashem Beck read at the Rugby Tavern in London as part of the London launch of her Laureate’s Choice Anthology: There Was and How Much There Was.
Mohammed Abdelnabi Wins 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
Egyptian novelist Mohammed Abdelnabi has won the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe for his International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel La Chambre de l’araignée, as translated from Arabic by Gilles Gauthier.
Stella Gaitano, Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook, and Sudanese Uprisings
“I started to record it so as not to forget. Not only for me but for anyone who is innocent and has been imprisoned under false pretenses. Just to remember what can happen.”
Why a Staged Reading of ‘Question and Question’ by Liwaa Yazji?
“By voicing their stories within interrogation sequences, Yazji’s refugee women expose the violence of bureaucratic and xenophobic questions as part of what contributes to their trauma.”
Almultaqa Prize Announces 2019 Shortlist
Organizers of AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story have announced their 2019 shortlist, made up of five short-story collections by authors from five different countries.
‘Exiled at Home’: A Film Featuring Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
In this short film, Sinjab sticks very close to Khalifa, who drives us around, sings for us, reads to us, washes dishes for us, shows us his mementos, and tells us about his life.