Egyptian Poet Nour Kamel on Brunel International African Poetry Prize’s 2018 Shortlist
look, people just go missing here
what could be more female than that
to go missing with no one to claim you
were ever there
Poetry
Sunday Submissions: Modern Poetry in Translation’s LBGTQ+ Issue
“Deadline for submitting to the LGBTQ+ focus: April 30th 2018.”
8 Short Stories by Arab Women for International Women’s Day
Your gift for International Women’s Day is eight great short stories by Arab women, in translation, available free online.
Translated Excerpt: ‘Aleppo Metro’ by Maha Hassan
“All of France now, for me, is simply a hotel, or hospital, or bridge between two mountains, a station here that I’m waiting in for a train going to my country over there. I’m waiting to reclaim my life. To return the duplicated Sara to the original one. I’m here waiting for my feet to slip at every French moment, to take me to Aleppo.”
Sunday Submissions: Art Omi 2018 Translation Lab
“This focused residency will provide an integral stage of refinement, allowing translators to dialogue with the writers about text-specific questions. It will also serve as an essential community-builder for English-language translators who are working to increase the amount of international literature available to English-language readers.”
Huddud’s House: ‘The Last Thing I Need Is for People To Read My Book Because It’s Forbidden’
“The last thing I need is that people read me because my book is forbidden. I need people to read it because they want to read it.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Rusted Radishes’ Looking for Translations for First Online Issue
“We primarily are looking for translations from Arabic to English, but also accept translations from English to Arabic. Please provide both versions when submitting.”
Poetry at ‘Hibr’ in London: ‘The Sea Cast Up Its Shells’
Your ‘burning patience’ extinguished now
you sneak back like daylight, slipping through alleyways
through front doors of houses, left ajar
closed at night, a dwelling goes down, like a rock.
Ten Years Later, ‘Contemporary Iraqi Fiction’: What Changes, What Stays the Same
“I’m as surprised as you are! There’s more interest in Vietnamese matters in the States now, so perhaps in a generation or so, Americans might be more willing to look at Iraq away from the blunders of the past.”