SZBA Announces Longlistees in Young Author and Children’s Literature Categories
The children’s-literature longlist, meanwhile, was made up 10 titles from six Arab countries. Half of the longlisted writers were from the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Oman), with the other half from Tunisia, Syria, and Morocco.
Read moreLit & Found: Najwa Binshatwan’s ‘Portrait of a Libyan Scream’
Later this month, UEA Publishing Project will release Mo(a)t: Stories from Arabic, an anthology of short fiction by Arabophone writers from the African diaspora, edited by Garen Torikian and translated by Sawad Hussain and Nariman Youssef.
Read moreEgyptian Playwright, Translator, Professor Mahmoud El Lozy Dies at 67
American University in Cairo professor, translator, playwright, actor, and director Mahmoud El Lozy died over the weekend. He was 63.
Read moreEtel Adnan Dies at 96
I say that I’m not afraid/of dying because I haven’t/ yet had the experience/ of death’
Read moreRemembering Humphrey Davies
“I do know what kind of writer I like – the marginal and contrarian, and those who deal with real life.”
Read moreCelebrating Humphrey: 10 Translations, 11 Interviews
Humphrey Davies produced many translations and gave many interviews on a wide range of work, medieval to contemporary, in his 24 years as a literary translator. These are a few of our favorites.
Read moreSunday Submissions: The Markaz Review
The Markaz Review is calling for submissions for an issue on LAUGHTER, open until December 1, 2021.
Read moreLit & Found: Three YouTube Panels on Arabic Literature and Translation
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
Read moreOn the Suspended 2021 Khartoum International Book Fair
“The books that used to be officially banned in the ousted surveillance state, like those of the acclaimed Sudanese novelist Abdelaziz Baraka Saki, and the bold investigative journalist and writer Fathi al-Daw, were supposed to reclaim their place in the shelves of the book fair.”
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