Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz
“It’s no surprise that the introduction of a new family member brings a change in culinary repertoire.”
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Translator Samah Selim on Being Haunted by the Author’s Ghost
“If I’m reading a book and I think halfway through, ‘wow, I might like to translate this’ it’s usually because the architecture of the book is building to a powerful crescendo of meaning.”
On Translating ‘The Art of Party-crashing in Medieval Iraq’ and Why ‘Everybody Loves a Joker’
Syracuse University Press recently released Emily Selove’s translation of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Selections from the Art of Party-crashing in Medieval Iraq. She answered a few questions about the project: ArabLit: What brought you to this […]
Novelist Nihad Sirees on Aleppo Then, Aleppo Now, Aleppo Imagined
Nihad Sirees will soon be in London, appearing with Golan Haji and Robin Yassin-Kassab at the Southbank Center (Jan 29), with Malu Halasa and Ghalia Kabbani at Waterstones Piccadilly (Jan […]