Duna Ghali

Writing needs isolation, it’s something you do in secret, like working secretly in a forbidden party. (2)

Interviews Duna Ghali

Duna Ghali on Writing, Translating, and Publishing Between Arabic and Danish

May 2, 2024

Last week, we shared an excerpt from Iraqi author Duna Ghali’s acclaimed novel Orbits of Lonelinessin maia tabet’s translation. This week, Duna talks with us about the differing receptions of […]

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From ArabLit Quarterly Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Ahmed Magdy Hammam, al-Jahiz, Ali Jaafar Al Allaq, Alice Holttum, ArabLit Quarterly, Burnaby Hawkes, Dima El-Mouallem, Duna Ghali, Enas Eltorky, Ghada Alatrash, Hilal Badr, Ibrahim Fawzy, Jonas Elbousty, Karima Ahdad, Katharine Halls, Layla AlAmmar, Madeline Edwards, Maheera Migdadi, Maisaa Tanjour, Michael Payne, MIRRORS, Mohamed Choukri, Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, Nawal Nasrallah, Nawara Belal, Qassim Majeed, Ra’ad Abdulqadir, Rasha Abbas, Reem Abbas, Rema Hmoud, Rym Jalil, Said Takieddine, Sara Abou Rashed, Shahd Alshammari, Shakir Mustafa, Zeena Faulk

Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic

March 15, 2022

In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present.

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