Lit & Found: Five Short Fictions and Three Interviews from Diaa Jubaili
2022-09-09
His collection of short-short fiction, No Windmills in Basra, appeared this week in Chip Rossetti’s translation from Deep Vellum Press.Continue Reading
Coming in September: Short Stories from Iraq & a Novel from Sudan
2022-09-01
New books in translation by Jabbour Douaihy, Diaa Jubaili, and Hammour Ziada.Continue Reading
‘The Lion of Basra’: Muslim, Jew, and Christian
2021-03-11
“In the last week of our series on Iraq’s diverse literary scene — curated by Hend Saeed — we focus on Diaa Jubaili’s The Lion of Basra, which is set amongst the fragmentation of Iraq’s different religious communities.”Continue Reading
ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
2020-09-21
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.Continue Reading
Almultaqa Prize Announces 5-book Shortlist for 2018
2018-11-01
Organizers of the Kuwait-based Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story announced their shortlist this morning.Continue Reading
3 Iraqis on Almultaqa Short Story Prize’s 2018 Longlist
2018-10-03
“According to the release, the five-person jury, chaired by Kuwaiti critic Suad Alenzi, considered 197 short-story collections from around the world.”Continue Reading
