Lit Lists

By Essayed Taha To mark Women in Translation Month, we asked 12 Arab women authors to recommend readings by other Arab women that they have enjoyed and admired. The result is a diverse and exciting list that covers a range of genres, from poetry to novels, memoirs to essays, by women writing from the early twentieth century through those writing now.. Syrian poet Rasha Omran chose the late Syrian poet Saniya Saleh and the Lebanese novelist Huda Barakat. Omran wrote: “[Saniya Saleh] wrote a unique prose poem that was free from the influence of her husband, Muhammad Al-Maghout, and free from the Adonisian modernist perspectives (Adonis being the husband of her sister, the critic Khalida Said). Her poetry reflected her ...

For this year’s Women in Translation Month, we wanted to introduce readers to a few of the women in key roles across the publishing industries across countries in the Maghreb and Mashreq ...

"At some point you start to feel very patronised." ...

"I don't see myself as an intermediary at all. I see myself as a reader. I am an expert reader because I can speak the language and I know its history, and because I understand some things about the context of the text that I read." ...

On July 2, The Markaz Review published their 2023 double summer issue featuring many brilliant writers, translators, and artists, including former and current ArabLit contributors ...