Cat Tales: 9 Short Stories That Center Felines
Inspired by BookRiot’s recent list of new books in translation featuring cats, we revisit some of our favorite feline-focused short fictions. Egypt Egypt has many fictional cats, many of which […]
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Summer Reads: ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
This summer, we will run select pieces from summer issues of ArabLit Quarterly. This short story, by author Muhammad El-Hajj, tr. author-translator Yasmine Zohdi, ran in the summer 2019 SEA issue of the magazine, available as PDF, e-pub, and in print.
New Fiction in Translation: Layla Baalbaki’s ‘The Cat’
“Now, it was the beginning of summer.”
Monday Literature: ‘Tale of the Resurrected Brother and the Metamorphosed Mother’
As we set up the table for our meal, the doorbell rang. “Who is it?” we all wondered at the same time. No one answered.
Monday Literature: ‘Schrödinger’s 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.”
ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.
Announcing the Next Two ‘ArabLit Quarterly’ Themes: CRIME and CATS
Those are two separate themes; we are not requesting contributions about criminal or crime-fighting cats; although, naturally, we’re open to anything that’s evocative, soul-cracking, un-put-downable, fun.
12 Reads: Looking for the Great Arabic Cat Story
We are in the process of hunting down Arabic cat stories, cat tales, cat anecdotes, cat poetry, The Great Cairo Cat Novel, and other feline literary productions in Arabic.