Arabic Literature (in English)

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• Naguib Mahfouz: Between Fiction and History, ‘Essays of the Sadat Era’

  By mlynxqualey on July 26, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  “While Mahfouz’s opinions are often considered to be obscured in his fiction writing, here we gain an extraordinarily clear insight into his personal views – views which helped shape his novels.”

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• Syrian Novelist Haitham Hussein on Writing Kurdish Stories into Arabic Literature

  By mlynxqualey on July 25, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “I don’t find that history is a science of the past. To me, it is the science of the future.”

• When Arabophones Weren’t Arabs: Ibn Qutaybah and Identity Formation During the Early Period of Islam

  By mlynxqualey on July 24, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “The book should also be interesting to  people who study medieval history of the rest of the world, because this was a time, in the post-Roman world, in which the identities of the modern European nations — the Franks, the Anglo Saxons, and even German identities — were being constructed in Europe. It’s really at the same time that Arabness was being constructed in the Middle East, so from a comparative perspective of the birth of modern nations, this book would be very helpful to people who know a lot about how Anglo Saxon identity was constructed, for instance.”

• Sunday Submissions: Emerging Translator Mentorships

  By mlynxqualey on July 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The application deadline is soon: July 28, 2017.

• Saturday Summer Re-run: Ten Rules for Translating from Humphrey Davies and Jonathan Wright

  By mlynxqualey on July 22, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “You can’t fight City Hall, even if everyone around you in your formative years always said ‘smelt’ rather than ‘smelled’.”

• Friday Finds: Audio from Shubbak Literature Festival 2017

  By mlynxqualey on July 21, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Miss the literary events at Shubbak? Can’t wait until July 2019? Listen to the recordings.

• The Complete List: Entries for the 2017 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

  By mlynxqualey on July 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “This year for the first time, we will be announcing a short list in December, following the judges’ meeting in late November.”

• Charif Majdalani’s ‘L’empereur à Pied’ Longlisted for FNAC Prize

  By mlynxqualey on July 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “The winner will be announced on the eve of the FNAC Books Forum, which will take place from September 15 to 17.”

• Eternal Nightmares of the Hounded Mind: On ‘Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Dystopias’

  By mlynxqualey on July 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Is this authority really that clever and strong, or is it the people’s imagination that makes it terrifying?”

• Arabic-to-Spanish Translators: Poetry-translation Contest Open Through July 31

  By mlynxqualey on July 17, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  “The idea is to celebrate literary dialogues, translation, poetry, poetry translation and linguistic diversity.”

• Sunday Submissions: ‘In Other Words,’ an Opportunity for Authors (and Publishers) of Children’s Literature

  By mlynxqualey on July 16, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Last year, there were nearly 400 submissions from around the world and eight shortlisted titles. Three of these have already been sold to UK publishers: translations from the Afrikaans, Danish, and Russian.

• Summer Saturday Re-Runs: Iraqi Poets Speak

  By mlynxqualey on July 15, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “When I decided to study the translations of Sayyab’s poetry, I was shocked when I found that there’s just one book in English about the pioneer of modern Arabic poetry!”

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