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• Sunday Submissions: The TA First Translation Prize and 2018 PEN/Heim Grants

  By mlynxqualey on August 6, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “The PEN/Heim Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003, and — since that time — it has funded a total of 139 translations from over 35 languages, including three projects translated from Arabic.”

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• Saturday Summer Re-runs: On Translating ‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah, Perhaps Arabic’s Most Prolific Premodern Woman Writer

  By mlynxqualey on August 5, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “When she’s in Cairo and she’s having these exchanges, she’s a widow. She’s probably in her fifties. Her son is with her, and he’s working as a secretary for the Sultan, and she’s living in the quarters of a family friend with his wife. Certainly somebody’s going to take exception, you’re always going to have conservative elements, but we don’t know of it.”

• Friday Finds: A Conversation with Jehan Bseiso and Filmpoem ‘No Search, No Rescue’

  By mlynxqualey on August 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Being naturally bilingual, you already inhabit this in-between kind of space. And hearing my poetry in my mother tongue, it feels very different.”

• Must-read Classics by Women: Latifa al-Zayyat’s ‘The Open Door’

  By mlynxqualey on August 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “In 2017, The Open Door still makes a thrilling romantic read about finding a feminist lover in an anti-feminist world, while also asking: How does one find the rediscover one’s authentic childhood self as an adult? And how, in this world of injustices, does one productively resist?”

• Badriyah Albeshr’s ‘Thursday’s Visitors’: A New Translation by Sawad Hussain

  By mlynxqualey on August 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “She felt ashamed, then disgusted, then hatred for her defiled body. She wished she could exact revenge on them all, herself included.”

• For ‘Women in Translation’ Month, 8 New or Forthcoming Books by Arab Women

  By mlynxqualey on August 1, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  August is Women in Translation month. Eight to read or put on your to-read list.

• ‘Excellence of the Arabs’: Ibn Qutaybah and the Cultural Authority of Poetry

  By mlynxqualey on July 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “It was fun! And what I quite liked about it is that it was tremendously educational, and it compelled me, in having to translate these poems, to really figure out what they said, and to participate in the intellectual culture of ninth-century Iraq. One of the advantages is that, in other projects that I’m working on, I’m seeing many of these poems coming back. And now I have a much more personal relationship with the poetry.”

• 2017 Arab American Book Awards Announced: 3 Big Names, 1 YA Debut

  By mlynxqualey on July 31, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  The fourth award, for children’s and young adult literature, went to pediatric nurse and debut author Michelle Chalfoun for “The Treasure of Maria Mamoun.”

• Sunday Submissions: PEN Translation Prize Open Now

  By mlynxqualey on July 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “The $3000 prize has had an Arabic winner once, in 2011, when Ibrahim Muhawi took the prize for his magic rendering of Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief.”

• Saturday Summer Re-Runs: Salwa Bakr on ‘Women and Arabic Literature’

  By mlynxqualey on July 29, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “Bakr also critiqued the representation of women in literature, criticizing both men and women authors for failing to write good female characters.”

• Friday Finds: Iman Mersal on Saniya Salih

  By mlynxqualey on July 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “I did not find Saniya Saleh in Cairo.”

• Paula Haydar on the Tightrope of Translating Award-winning Novelist Jabbour Douaihy

  By mlynxqualey on July 27, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  “This is what translating Lebanese fiction is like for me – not a window into a foreign world, but into my own world, the world that might have been had my grandparents not immigrated to America at the turn of the century.”

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