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Naguib Mahfouz: New Reads and More for the Author’s 108th

Naguib Mahfouz: New Reads and More for the Author’s 108th

Cover Reveal and 7 Poems: ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’

Cover Reveal and 7 Poems: ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’

New Fiction in Translation: The Puny Pigeon Loft Proprietor

New Fiction in Translation: The Puny Pigeon Loft Proprietor

November 24, 2019November 21, 2019 mlynxqualey translation

Sunday Submissions: Triple Canopy Seeking ‘Fictions of Nationalism’

"Each commission recipient will receive: a $2,000 honorarium; eight to twelve months of artistic, editorial, and technical support; the possibility of using Triple Canopy’s Manhattan office and venue for an event devoted or related to the work; and archiving of the project by Triple Canopy in partnership with NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections."

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 mlynxqualey Bulaq

Bulaq 39: Writers Are Not Magic

Can a poem save the world? Can a novel change the course of humanity? Can a hybrid work leap a building in a single bound?

November 22, 2019November 20, 2019 mlynxqualey poetry, translation

Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages

You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.     

November 21, 2019November 14, 2019 mlynxqualey Sudan

Sudanese Author Omayma Abdullah on the Writer’s Heart

"No writer can take the possession of his or her heart for granted; it seems be a writer's fate that their heart is always at in the hands of others, and others’ hearts clustering around them."

November 20, 2019December 3, 2019 mlynxqualey gifts, holidays

ArabLit Holiday Gift Guide 2019

For every literature-lover, food-eater, cat-lover, and beverage-drinker on your gift list.

November 19, 2019December 3, 2019 mlynxqualey classics, poetry

In Love and Word Ensnared

Mourns a friend and blames time that struck her down with what struck me

November 18, 2019December 3, 2019 mlynxqualey Algeria, crime

The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books

From state crimes and political murders to family feuds and petty crime, with investigations conducted by professionals or the uninitiated, Algerian crime writers have produced some the most entertaining stories I have read -- and are certainly the most vibrant in the Algerian literary corpus. 

November 17, 2019November 13, 2019 mlynxqualey poetry, translation

Sunday Submissions: Copper Canyon Accepting Translated Poetry Manuscripts

Submissions close December 1, 2019.

November 16, 2019November 14, 2019 mlynxqualey Egypt

Launch Event Tomorrow: Read an Excerpt of Donia Kamal’s ‘Random Arrangements’

"I hate that nobody is ever accountable for anything, even if you complain repeatedly and send emails that nobody answers, and I hate emails in the first place, and I also hate the fact that most of my colleagues here are surrendering to the editorial agenda which they actually see as valid and balanced while it makes me cry every day in the bathroom."

November 15, 2019November 13, 2019 mlynxqualey poetry

Friday Finds: Norbert Hirschhorn’s ‘Stephen Spender’-commended Translation

I am the Lord of the room. My crown is morning dust, the floor my castle.

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 mlynxqualey Egypt

On Taha Hussein Day: 5 in Translation

Although Hussein's works continue to be read and loved forty-odd years after his death, only a small corner of his broad oeuvre has been translated to English.

November 13, 2019November 17, 2019 mlynxqualey YA

‘Whose Doll Is It?’ Read from an Etisalat Award Winner

Taghreed Najjar's Whose Doll Is This?, winner of 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the "Young Adult" category, is, Hend Saeed writes, the book you've been waiting to read.

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