Dunya Mikhail’s ‘The Beekeeper’ Longlisted for National Book Award
The finalists will be announced October 10, with the winners announced November 14, at a National Book Awards ceremony.
Poetry
‘So That We Won’t Appear as a Scar on the World’s Brow’
our miseries must vanish
like soap bubbles in the air
so that you
World
can appear laughing
in all your photos
without worrying
that our daughters
might lean out of your eye sockets
Online: 20 Translated Stories by Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani — an award-winning Jordanian short-story author — is one of the few practitioners of Arabic short stories who has been widely translated and published in non-specialized English-language literary magazines.
Arrival and Illusion in Arabic Theatre’s Northernmost Outpost
“Founded in 2015 and producing its first large-scale production (The Little Prince) in 2016, al-Masrah al-Arabi takes as its mission to create and perform world class theatre in Arabic in Sweden.”
Friday Finds: ‘The Unnamable Remains’ by Jewish Poet Qasmuna Bint Ismail
For Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), a discovery: Yasmine Seale translates the great 12th-century Arabic-language Jewish poet of Andalusia, Qasmuna bint Ismail.
Translate This! Sawsan Jamil Hassan’s ‘Nabbashun’
“It is not only the world of the marginalized people living in the dark background of the city, but is intertwined with the lives of their animals.”
Sania Saleh: The Condemned Lakes
Swaying between a hostile wind
And a friendly one
Sunday Submissions: The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation
The prize, run by Lunch Ticket, carries a $200 prize, as well as publication in the next issue of Lunch Ticket.
Lamia Abbas Amara: ‘Had the Fortune-teller Told Me’
If only the fortune-teller had told me that
I would meet you in this labyrinth