Sunday Submissions: ‘Digital Intimacies’
From now through the end of May, The Lifted Brow is accepting submissions from translators for their “Digital Intimacies” issue.
Poetry
Bensalem Himmich Memoir Takes 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced their roster of 2019 winners in five categories.
Friday Finds: Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, Alaa Hlehel
The relatively new “Short Story Project” has already published several translations from Arabic, including works by Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, and Alaa Hlehel.
On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
The towering, generation-defining Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was born on this day in al-Birwa.
For International Women’s Day: 8 by Arab Women in 2019
For the eighth of March, eight new books by Arab women, translated from Arabic or French, set to be published in 2019.
The Award-winning Palestinian YA Novel Written in Prison
The book that won the 2018 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the Young Adult category, The Oil’s Secret Tale, was written by Palestinian author Walid Daqqa, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1986.
Egyptian, Moroccan Stories Make 2018 ‘Short Story Day Africa’ Longlist
“It’s wonderful to be publishing writers like Adam El Shalakany from Egypt, who has entered the SSDA Prize in the past but has never been placed. His story “Happy City Hotel” was one of the unanimous decisions, of which there were only six out of the twenty-one.”
Sunday Submissions: Rusted Radishes 8, ‘Sea Change’
“We are looking for your submissions, inspired by the sea.”
5 Books by Etel Adnan, Born on This Day
“Time and fog escape our grasp.” -Etel Adnan, #BOTD.