Sunday Submissions: ‘The Best Asian Short Stories 2019’
Submissions between 3000-5000 words should be e-mailed to TBASSv2019@gmail.com before March 31, 2019.
Poetry
Inaam Kachachi: ‘What Hurts My People Hurts Me’
“But for me, it’s not necessary to put my hand in the fire to express its pain. What hurts my people hurts me.”
Friday Finds: Review & Excerpt from Hoda Barakat’s ‘The Night Post’
My darling mother,
I write to you from the airport before they can take me, before I go through the security barrier.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Bulbul’ Magazine
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2019. Questions and submissions can be sent to bulbul@brown.edu.
The 22 Arabic Poetry Collections Selected for ‘Brave Books’
The list has a palpable absence of Mahmoud Darwish.
Mystery and Friendship in ‘Reem: Into the Unknown’
The most compelling aspect of ‘Reem: Into the Unknown’ is how the author depicts the loneliness, confusion, and disconnected feeling some teens and young adults experience.
Farewell to Beloved and Award-winning Novelist May Menassa, 80
She was among the first woman broadcasters in the early days of Lebanese TV and presented the “Women of Today” program.
Sunday Submissions: Works by Arab Women Playwrights
The deadline for submissions is noon on January 31, 2019.
The 8 Writers Chosen for 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa
This year, half the writers were from GCC countries (Emirates, Oman, Kuwait), and half from the rest of the region (Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Morocco).