Bothayna Al-Essa Named 2023 BCLT Writer in Residence
The British Centre for Literary Translation has announced that their Arabic writer-in-residence this summer will be Bothayna Al-Essa, who will join workshop leader Nariman Youssef at their annual literary translation summer school.Continue Reading
Sunday Submissions: Arab Culture Fund ‘Creative and Critical Writings’
The Arab Culture Fund has opened its call for their Creative and Critical Writings grant 2023. Continue Reading
‘#There_Is_a_Voice’: A Plea to Continue the Search for Earthquake Victims
“Do you know what it feels like to put your head on the ground with the hopes that you may hear the voice of someone you love?”Continue Reading
Organizers Announce 2023 Winners of the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing
FEBRUARY 15, 2023 – Today, the board of the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing announced the winning works in the award’s thirteenth edition. The award, sponsored by Zain telecommunications, is named in remembrance of the great Sudanese novelist and short-story writer Tayeb Salih, who is best-known internationally for hisContinue Reading
Poetry Revisited: Fadi Azzam’s ‘If You Are Syrian These Days …’
By Fadi Azzam Translated by Ghada Alatrash –If you are Syrian these days, you stand shielded and exposed, you are the awakening and the delusion, and the dream and the nightmare, all in one breath. – You are a breath that freezes in the sweltering heat and melts in the chill ofContinue Reading
An Excerpt from Jan Dost’s ‘A Green Bus Leaving Aleppo’
A Red Crescent flag fluttered from the small ambulance that arrived, parking beside the green bus where Abu Layla sat with the rest of the fighters and civilians and women and men and children. Continue Reading
2023 Comma Press Emerging Translator Prize to Focus on Arabic
This year’s Emerging Translator Prize, co-sponsored by the Bristol Translates! workshop and Comma Press, will focus on Arabic.Continue Reading
Sunday Submissions: International Conference on Arabic Literature at the University of Warsaw
Paper submissions have opened for the University of Warsaw’s conference on Arabic literature, focusing on the theme ‘Modern Arabic Literature – Between Myth and Reality’.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Omar Khalifah’s ‘As If I Were Me’
The latest issue of the Shuddhashar FreeVoice magazine — established in 1990 at the advent of the little magazine movement in Bangladesh — is focused on the art of the short story, and includes stories translated from Bangla, Urdu, Gujarati, French, Korean, Marathi, and Arabic, as well as overviews of the state of the short story in Greek and Arabic. Continue Reading
