From Fatma Qandil’s ‘Empty Cages’
It’s publication day for Fatima Qandil’s raw, tenderly crafted novel Empty Cages, translated to English by Adam Talib. In this excerpt, we get a glimpse of the narrator’s relationship with her mother.
Empty Cages
Forthcoming May 2025: Award-winning Novels, Cordoban Invective, & Syrian Short Fiction
Arabic works newly out in translation in May 2025 include two award-winning, a work of eleventh-century invective (and fourteenth-century explication), and Syrian short fiction.