Lit & Found: Sawad Hussain on Resources for Editing Translations
For the last post of her residency at the British Centre for Literary Translation, Arabic-English translator Sawad Hussain shares some of the resources she uses when editing translations.
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Habib Tengour: “I’m Not Seeking Sophistication or Charm, but the Correct Expression, the Effective Image, the Sounds and the Appropriate Rhythm”
“What I can say is that it took me a very long time to become more or less satisfied with what I was writing. It took me a long time to find my way (and my voice) which is to simply say things, even if they might seem impenetrable or sophisticated.”
Read morePublisher Mahmoud Muna on the Launch of an Arabic Edition of Granta Magazine: “We Want to Encourage New and Bold Creative Writing from the Region”
“We hope that the magazine will add some vibrancy to the contemporary Arabic literary scene and that it will encourage bolder creative writing to emerge. We also hope that the magazine will create a space for literary discussion and that it will be a new platform that introduces us to young Arab writers who deserve attention and to be read, and to empower them through Granta’s multilingual world to cross into other languages and cultures.”
Read moreSunday Submissions: ‘Wasafiri’ Looks For Editors at Large
UK-based literary magazine, Wasafiri, is calling for applications from the Middle East to their Editors at Large program.
Read moreMona Kareem on Translation: ‘Embrace Your Invisibility As a Superpower’
“Embrace your invisibility as a superpower.”
Read more‘No In-Between’: 10 Book Titles Changed in Translation
“Titles are complicated, because it’s different from the actual content. It makes sense; you want titles to evoke something in the audience. But sometimes, they’re not the best choices.”
Read moreAnnouncing: Some Changes at ArabLit.org & New Submission Guidelines
We’ve been gradually moving away from daily updates, and this will now continue, as we focus on curating content that is richer and broader in scope.
Read moreSunday Submissions: Call for Paper Proposals on ‘Wombs and Tombs’
Literary scholars Roxanne Douglas and Layla AlAmmar are calling for abstracts for a special issue on “Wombs and Tombs: Hauntings and Generational Trauma in Arab Women’s Writing,” to be submitted by July 29, 2022.
Read moreLit & Found: An Excerpt from Areej Gamal’s Sawiris-winning ‘Hi Maryam, It’s Arwa’
” I got used to our peculiar life in Riyadh. It wasn’t like anyone else’s; we weren’t like anyone else.”
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