Nineteen-year-old poet Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib is a student in data science in Gaza who is one of the laureates of ArabLit’s Summer 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Series; her work has appeared in Spanish with Elvantodelsuimangr and Gaza Tarevista.
A classic office farce from Al-Sahhar’s collection “Being a Civil Servant,” published in 1944.
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month.
Ten months and six days after the sudden fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime, DoppelHouse Press released Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution, the eyewitness chronicles of nurse-turned-frontline-war-reporter Hadi Abdullah, ably translated by Alessandro Columbu.
Writer Husam Maarouf returns to Deir al-Balah in what feels like the same displacement and return he experienced only months ago.
The book club “Llegir Palestina” (“Read Palestine” in Catalan) has been a success in Catalunya’s public libraries; next, organizers plan to offer workshops to library staff and volunteers on how to start up their own “Read Palestine” books clubs.
This poem was commissioned for the Voiced festival, highlighting global and local endangered languages through creativity; author Hanan Issa also talks here about her relationship with the poetry of Nazik al Malaika.
This book was the subject of a recent episode of the BULAQ podcast; today, with permission, we bring you a section from the memoir soon after Inji Efflatoun meets her beloved husband Hamdi, who she was originally wary of — since he was a public prosecutor — although she is reassured he is actually “a committed Marxist.”
This is part of a longer story, “Maryam,” (2022) by Palestinian author Saga Hamdan.
