Publication Day for ‘Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology’
From the start, he frames Sudan’s poetic landscape as oppositional — African and Arab, Tropical Forest and Desert — or as a dual and twined Afro-Arab tradition.
Poetry
‘Blank Bullets’: 2 Poems by Manahel Alsahoui
Dozens of soldiers will love me now
They will shove me onto a bed of blank bullets
Special Excerpt: ‘Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate’
Saudi Novelist Omaima Al-Khamis’ Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate was winner of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal and also longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: […]
By Arab Women: 6 New Books for Young Readers in Translation
It’s probably not particularly surprising that of the six new Arabic books for young readers that are available in English translation in 2019, six have been written by women.
Nayrouz Qarmout on Writing, Pessimism, and How ‘Fear Kills Women’
“But despite all this pain and pressure, women’s creativity is a reason for survival.”
On Raja Alem’s ‘Sarab’ & Translating an Arabic Book Not Published in Arabic
“I was honoured to work on this for many reasons, but I have to say that Raja’s process of not publishing the Arabic first really felt like a mark of faith in what translators can do, and recognition of the different value they can bring to a text.”
Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
Each Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit selects 10 Arabic short stories by women, in translation, online.
Hend Ja’far: Short Storycraft and Reading the Obituaries in Egypt
“It’s a vicious cycle, but if I were a publisher, I think I would bet on popular, low-cost, low-quality editions. That way, fraud would no longer be profitable for them.”
Tomorrow is Pub Day for Dominique Eddé’s ‘Edward Said: His Thoughts as a Novel’
“‘I was very moved’, came his voice down the line. ‘But you’re not cruel enough to me D. You’ve protected me. Your novel suffers from that. And you don’t understand, you haven’t written how much I loved you. Mali loves Farid more than he loves her. Farid isn’t me.’”