Short Story Original: Hilal Chouman’s ‘World of Dogs’
“He keeps walking. The buildings, rubble, and garbage around him duplicate and multiply.”
Poetry
Sunday Submissions: Sawti Poetry Prize for work in Arabic, Kiswahili, English
Participating poets are asked to respond to the theme of: “‘Poetry as Preservation’ – Exploring poems that seek to identify, rework and archive narratives of preserving a life, a language, a memory, a history or a practice.”
Friday Finds: Dominique Eddé, Rima Rantisi on Lebanon
“Speed is a reflex, second nature. When a driver is stuck in a traffic jam, his hand on the horn immediately takes over from his foot on the accelerator. It is less an attempt to move forward than a way of not giving up when everything is falling apart.”
Friday Finds: 21 Short Stories for 2019’s Longest Day
Twenty-one translated stories from twelve countries — available free online — for your midsummer, 2019.
Against Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in
“Tents with long desks full of books at either side served as public libraries, where readers had access to banned books, including the books of Fathi-al-Daw and the novels of A. Baraka Sakin, which were once traded secretly in the country.”
Saturday Submissions: Translations of Poetry on Extinction
The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2019.
In Celebration of Amjad Nasser, a Poet Who ‘Mourns Himself While Still Alive’
This week, the literary journal “Akhbar al-Adab” dedicated an issue to Nasser and his work, which features essays by Ghassan Zaqtan, Tarek al-Tayeb, Qassim Haddad, Hoda Barakat, and others.
Friday Finds: 13 Poems by Mona Kareem
“Kareem creates captivating and visual miniatures of day-to-day situations.”
Sunday Submissions: 4th Khayrallah Prize
Deadline for submissions to this year’s prize is August 31, 2019.