Arab Women of Words: Conversation With 9 Industry Leaders
For this year’s Women in Translation Month, we wanted to introduce readers to a few of the women in key roles across the publishing industries across countries in the Maghreb and Mashreq.
Asmaa Azaizeh
Three Translations of Asmaa Azaizeh’s ‘Dragonflies’
These three translations of Asmaa Azaizeh’s “Dragonflies” appeared in the first issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which came out in the fall of 2018.
Lit & Found: Asmaa Azaizeh’s ‘Reflection’
“Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher. / I feel like I handed him my head / and the words I speak from now on
/ will come out of his mouth. / What a disaster!”
On Why Women’s Poetry in Arabic is Where It’s At
“For me, actually, I think we are impacted by male writers who are writing now, and they are writing about broken masculinity, which I don’t like either. So maybe women are free of this, relatively. Maybe they are marginalized, so they have more opportunity to think, to write.”
Sunday Submissions: Wales PEN Cymru Translation Challenge
Wales PEN Cymru is accepting submissions for their Translation Challenge until May 31.
Asmaa Azaizeh’s ‘Dragonflies’ in Three Languages
“Every time we stopped in the shade of a tree, / one of us would shout: ‘Here we are!’ / A fantasy mightier than mountains.”
Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.