An Excerpt from Inès Abbassi’s ‘Bourguiba House’
I answered her, my eyes fixed on a pile of clothes, deep in thought, “I’ve got to find the dress, the dress is the key, it’s the ax that will cut down poverty right from its roots.”
Poetry
Translate This! Samar Yazbek’s ’19 Women’
“We had no experience of dealing with something like this. The smell from the hospital was like the stench of rotten eggs. We gave people the standard facemasks but it did no good.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Tammy’ & Translated Chapbooks
“Collaborations, hybrids, and translations are welcome.”
Lit & Film: Hadiya Hussein’s ‘Man in a Cup’
The last, the short-short “A Man in a Cup,” is an adapation of a short story by Iraqi writer Hadiya Hussein of the same name. If you won’t be in London, you can watch it online.
Friday Finds: ‘How to Find Your Mother In Her Portrait’
“When my mother died in the mid-seventies, her only extant portrait took on a greater significance.”
9 in 2018: Best of New Translated Arabic Lit by Women
As Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) opens, we list nine of the best women’s works translated from Arabic to English and published in 2018.
Dareen Tatour Sentenced to 5 Months; Create Art To Help Fight Her Conviction
“With your agreement we intend to curate a digital-only album of submissions, to be made available for sale on several platforms.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘New Poetry in Translation’
“We accept poetry translations (including prose poems) from any language and any time period.”
America Through Radwa’s Eyes: ‘The Journey’
“Although I for one had to read up on the teen guru of the Divine Light Movement to see if Radwa was having me on. (She wasn’t.)”