‘No Way But The Way’
“It’s heart-warming to see Sargon’s voice transmogrify in so many ways and across four languages.”
featuredAL
Lock-in Literature: 4 Poems by Jan Dost
“I am the star up there that lurks shy and restless in the sky,/ silently chewing on his pale light.”
Lock-in Literature: Zakaria Tamer’s ‘The Flower’
“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”
Arabic Publishing and the Covid-19 Pandemic
“This is the ultimate test for ebooks and audiobooks.”
‘Genius’ Egyptian Poet and Lyricist Mido Zoheir, 46
“On the surface, you might think it’s about the dire reality and all, but somehow his texts don’t bring you down. I don’t know how he does that.”
Saints, Goats, and Genealogy: The First Volume of al-Yūsī’s Discourses
“Al-Yūsī’s orientation, and Morocco’s orientation at the time, was toward the south. It’s something that we don’t think about today.”
The Challenges of Algerian Comix and ‘A Beautiful Local Production’
“Dalimen Editions really want to widen comic books’ readership. We want to strip away this image of comix as books for children. We have albums aimed at young readers, of course, but we have others for adults because comic books speak to everyone and are accessible to all.”
New Fiction in Translation: Belal Fadl’s ‘Into the Tunnel’
“Yet all they could see was the hollow emptiness of the tunnel, which looked as if it had never seen traffic in its life.”
Special Limited Publication: Stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
Four stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats are available free on ArabLit until the end of this month.