"When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team."
New Poetry: Rym Jalil’s ‘My Motherâs Kitchen’
"Every day I lie and say / I know this place. / My mother's kitchen / brims with afflictions / I must pretend to befriend it / we all know it can have only one master / from its beginning to its end"
BILA HUDOOD: The Taste of Letters
In this panel, moderated by Nour Kamel, writers reflect on the various tastes that make up food writing in and through Arabic. Kamel is joined by writer, researcher, and filmmaker Salma Serry; the genre-spanning author of Food for Copts (2017) Charles Akl; and Mariam Boctor a member of Botounâs curatorial team who helped facilitate âThe Taste of Lettersâ workshop and translated some of its texts into English.
Today: Launch of ArabLit Quarterly Summer 2021 ‘THE KITCHEN’ Issue
The Summer 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly is available today in print and e-form.
Publication Day for ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2021 Issue: SONG
The Spring 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly -- with voices moist and cricketlike, stirring and gritty, ploverlike and tremulous -- is available today in print and e-form.
New Fiction in Translation: Layla Baalbaki’s ‘The Cat’
"Now, it was the beginning of summer."
Monday Literature: ‘SchrĂśdingerâs Cats’ by Ameer Hamad
"Bella felt she had several cats at once, and that the spirit of her cat was being continually rejuvenated, such that she could never guess what her cat would do next."
Sunday Submissions: ArabLit Quarterly Winter 2020: DREAMS
ArabLit Quarterly's Winter 2020 issue will have a focus on DREAMS.
Bulaq 56: ‘The Cat Is Out of the Bag’
This episode of Bulaq looks at the Fall 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly.