“Arabic literature in translation courses are also enabled by a new, fast-growing body of Arabic literature in English translation that can trace its rapid upswing to September 2001.”
“To a large part, we have managed to survive our stay-at-home period because we had books as our daily companions.”
“World Literature tends to focus on questions of circulation and reception, and this is inevitably tied to modes of reading. The difference between the way a text is read in English and the way it’s read in Arabic has been at the heart of some of the biggest 20th century literary controversies in the Middle East and North Africa.”
“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).”
“I don’t know anyone else who teaches this way, but I’m really proud of it. First because – we’ll bracket the native speakers for a minute – the overwhelming majority of my students will graduate without achieving fluency in Arabic. Most will die without achieving it. So what?? “
In the years since, the landscape of Kuwaiti literature written in English — or translated to English — has changed significantly.
We look back at a few of the influential authors whose deaths we marked in 2022. February 2022 Moroccan author Driss El Khouri died in his home in Salé. He was […]
A selection of the Arabic novels, poetry collections, short-story collections, and classic works forthcoming in 2023.
ArabLit kicks off this project as we kicked off the “Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation” series, with Brown University’s Emily Drumsta.
