“Look, there’s no novels,” a voice suddenly boomed directly above my head. “We don’t sell novels.”
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‘Place a Hope Beyond a Hope’: Devotional Literature as Literature
“Devotional literature never gets viewed as literature because people assume it’s for devotional purposes.”
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From ALQ’s Crime Issue: Meet the Banu Sasan
Brad Fox called in from lockdown in Peru to read from — and discuss — his translation (or recovery? or adaptation?) of Abu Dulaf’s “Song of the Banu Sasan.”
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“The year is 2048, in Palestine. It’s one hundred years after the violent establishment of the state of Israel in 1948—an event known in the Arab world as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe,” forcing more than 700,000 Palestinians to flee their homes.”
Read moreLaunching Today: ArabLit Quarterly Summer 2020, the CRIME Issue
The Summer 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly — our issue of summer insight & delight — is now available.
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