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‘Notes on the Flesh’: Shahd Alshammari on Writing the Disabled Body
“As a literary critic and a writer with a disability, I found myself unable to remain silenced about the lack of representation of female diverse bodies.”
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Amir Tag Elsir’s ‘Ebola ’76’ and Ghayath al-Madhoun’s ‘Adrenaline’ Make Best Translated Book Award 2018 Longlists
The finalists for both the fiction and poetry awards will be announced on Tuesday, May 15, with the winners set to be announced on Thursday, May 31.
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‘Using Life’ Among Finalists of First-ever Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
There will be two awards: one for a debut work, and the other for an established author in the genre of speculative fiction. Each award winner will receive $5,000.
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Syrian Novelist Maha Hassan on Trying ‘To Pay Respect to the Victims of War’
In “Good Morning, War,” my mother, who didn’t believe in her death, is the main narrator, speaking from the grave. The shock of my mother’s death, in which I also didn’t believe, and the shock of the fall of my country and its continued destruction, drove me write to hold on to our humanity, so that war victims don’t become numbers.
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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Algerian Literature in Italian
“This year, we’ll translate Ta’ al-khajal by Fadela Alfarouk and we will do the translation as a collective one (I’m convinced that collective knowledge production is always better than individual one).”
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Award-winning Iraqi Novelist and Short-story Writer Saad Mohammed Raheem, 61
Raheem also wrote political and literary theory, but he believed in the role of the novel as a tool of cultural enlightenment; this was the subject of his final tweet.
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Sunday Submissions: Anthology Searching for Poems by Young Arab Poets
“Submissions are welcome in either English or Arabic. Previously unpublished poets are encouraged to submit their work; however, we are looking for quality literary writing and writers who have a proper command of evocative language.”
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Yara Bamieh and Samar Mahfouz Barraj on Creating Award-winning Arabic Children’s Books
“I would like to add that the book was written during Palestine Writing Workshop project. The project has a number of writers and illustrators, and each one works on their own project, but we’re all in one place helping to share ideas and thoughts. That helped me to bring Bolqosh to its final version, which is different from when I started with it.”
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Friday Finds: Mohab Nasr’s ‘Society’
Society. Brother,
I don’t know what to make of this word,
through I cross the distance between my bedroom and the kitchen
without feeling it at all.
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IPAF-shortlisted Novelist Dima Wannous on ‘The Condition That Precedes Fear’
“I worked on the idea of fear because people in Syria — or any other country that’s under such a regime — are not only afraid of the regime, they are afraid of being afraid. It’s a condition that precedes the fear, meaning people are afraid because they are going to be afraid, and I worked from that point.”
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The 2018 Bahrain International Book Fair: Breaking Your Fast with an Onion
“When patience is poorly rewarded, you will certainly hear Bahrainis express their frustration by likening the situation to ‘breaking one’s fast with an onion.’ And after a little over a year’s worth of waiting, Bahrain’s 18th International Book Fair is that onion.”
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Khalil Sweileh, Ahmad al-Qarmalawi, Hessa al-Muhairi Win 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards
“The novel portrays an inward view of the Syrian Civil War tragedy; the author takes the reader on a trip around Damascus, trudging down the memory lanes and presenting the psychological conflicts amid the shattered reality of place and society – marking an important addition to the Syrian Literature, with a unique use of narrative tools and vocabulary construction.”
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ›
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Cover Reveal for Muhammad Abdelnabi’s ‘In the Spider’s Room,’ tr. Jonathan Wright
April 17, 2018
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IPAF-shortlisted Novelist Dima Wannous on ‘The Condition That Precedes Fear’
April 5, 2018
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Sunday Submissions: 2018 Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation Open Now
April 15, 2018
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Dark Poem-tales in ‘A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know’
April 14, 2018
