New Fiction in Translation: Layla Baalbaki’s ‘The Cat’
2021-01-04
“Now, it was the beginning of summer.”Continue Reading
Monday Literature: ‘Tale of the Resurrected Brother and the Metamorphosed Mother’
2020-10-12
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.Continue Reading
Monday Literature: ‘Schrödinger’s Cats’ by Ameer Hamad
2020-10-05
“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.”Continue Reading
ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
2020-09-21
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.Continue Reading
Announcing the Next Two ‘ArabLit Quarterly’ Themes: CRIME and CATS
2020-03-25
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.Continue Reading
12 Reads: Looking for the Great Arabic Cat Story
2019-09-24
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.Continue Reading
