#WiTMonth lists are necessarily idiosyncratic, reflecting not only the tastes and knowledge of the list-makers, but also what’s available in translation. In this case, our lists also reflect what’s accessible online.
Read moreLit & Found: Three Poems by Taghrid Abdelal
“I will look at your back / if you come down a little closer.”
Read more#WiTMonth Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold’
The collection is coming mid-October and can be pre-ordered on the MacMillan website.
Read more‘If There is a New Feeling, There Must Be a New Word’: A Talk with Nora Amin
” In order to express what, in her view, has not been spoken about before in Arabic literature—women’s perspective on sexuality, in its various forms, from lust to sexual trauma—the author saw the need to invent her own language, which impacts readers with its clarity and sobriety.”
Read moreA Look Back: Women in Translation Month 2021
“We ran poetry by established and emerging poets — and talked about how women’s poetry in Arabic has changed since the ’90s — published a short story from Iraq, rounded up lists of short stories available online, spoke to writers and scholars, and focused our “Lit & Found” feature on work by women.”
Read moreSearching for the Funambulists: Lisa Marchi on Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora
“This is an art that is not meant for the elites, it is meant for the people in the streets. People, I should add, who are perhaps a bit disheartened but still alert, and whose gaze is not fixed on the ground but looks up towards the sky.”
Read more9 Short Stories by Syrian Women, in Translation
As far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.
Read more#WiTMonth Podcasts: Poetry and More with Iman Mersal
Meanwhile, in an August episode of the new podcast MAQSOUDA, co-hosted by Farah Chamma and Zeina Hashem Beck, the host-poets discuss Mersal’s «فكرة البيوت», or “The Idea of Houses.”
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Haifa Zangana on Translation as Revisiting the Past
“At the time of writing the novella, I was preoccupied with a question: Is there is free will? Naturally, this question led to others: And how does it fit in a socially controlled life? How can individuals who arrived to London, not by choice, escape the new constraints?”
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