Arabic Literature (in English)

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• Translating ‘Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge’: ‘Evil, Banal, and Kind of Understandable’

  By mlynxqualey on June 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “The great thing about the book is that you can one minute want to shake almost any of the characters by the shoulders and then at the next sympathize. Even the central character in Goliath’s Eye chapter, is simultaneously evil, banal, and kind of understandable, in an appalling way.”

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• ‘Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge’ and Crafting 9/11 Supporters That Aren’t Caricatures

  By mlynxqualey on June 5, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  “But irony and sarcasm are dangerous devices. And I have a fleeting sense that my fondness of irony will one day cause my demise.”

• Sunday Submissions: ‘Bosphorus Review of Books’

  By mlynxqualey on June 4, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “The deadline for submissions is rolling, but BROB is currently seeking new work for the next bi-monthly edition in July.”

• Kaveh Akbar’s Big List of New and Forthcoming Books by Writers from Muslim Communities and Muslim-majority Countries

  By mlynxqualey on June 3, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “Someone on Twitter asked about new books by Muslim writers to read (or get hyped about) for Ramadan, so I made a short list of newish and forthcoming books[.]”

• Friday Finds: Anton Shammas on ‘Translating Palestinian Pain’

  By mlynxqualey on June 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “But I do know, deep inside, that the act of translating Taha Muhammad Ali into Hebrew was, for me, a kind of prayer, for me who never prays, because prayer is a one-way message, and those who pray don’t expect to hear answers to their supplications, but they go on.”

• Three Poets You Should Know: Noor Naga, Mona Kareem, Iman Mersal

  By mlynxqualey on June 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  On Tuesday, Noor Naga  won the $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for her collection ‘The Mistress and the Ping.’

• Disappearing Theatre: A Play About Palestinians in London, a Scottish Novel Adapted in Cairo

  By mlynxqualey on May 31, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “This small team have put a lot of time and effort into making an innovative piece of drama, which may never be shown to the public in Egypt.”

• A Jordan-born Palestinian Author, Writing in Maltese, Wins a 2017 European Union Prize for Literature

  By mlynxqualey on May 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Nabhan was nominated for the prize on the strength of his semi-autobiographical 2013 novel L-Eżodu taċ-Ċikonji, or The Storks’ Exodus.

• Fatima Sharafeddine’s YA Novel ‘Cappuccino,’ a Story of Surviving Domestic Violence

  By mlynxqualey on May 29, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Fatima Sharafeddine is a multi-award-winning author and translator of children books for all ages, from babies to teens. Sharafeddine has written and translated more than 120 books for young people, and her work has been translated into Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, English, Turkish,… Read More ›

• Sunday Submissions: The $2M ‘Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation’

  By mlynxqualey on May 28, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  As for translations into and out of European languages, there are only two in contention, but they are set to gain the biggest prizes.

• 6 Reads, 6 Different Views on Ramadan

  By mlynxqualey on May 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “From early boyhood I never studied during the holy month of Ramadan, although this was the month during which I read more than at any other time.”

• Friday Finds: ‘Under the Midmorning Sun’ and 5 More By Ibrahim Nasrallah

  By mlynxqualey on May 26, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  “Seven minutes before its natural end the play stopped. Its rhythm had been sped up, the performance turned into something resembling the dull recitation of a classical poem, or a school text learned by rote.”

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