Goodbye, Hello: The BEGIN AGAIN issue of ArabLit Quarterly
“And although beginnings have the better reputation, a beginning also serves to close off other possibilities. The ending, meanwhile, opens them up.”
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New Poetry: ‘Mind the Gap,’ a Syrian on the London Underground
On the underground / I sit and contemplate the ceiling. / London passes over me.
INTRODUCING ‘Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam’
Today, we are launching our first crowd-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam.
Winner of 2022 ArabLit Story Prize ‘Captures the Essence of What a Short Story Should Be’
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2022 ArabLit Story Prize are Belal Fadi and James Scanlan, for Scanlan’s translation of Fadl’s “The Kid Sheikh” (!الشيخ العَيِّل).
A Conversation with Hadiya Hussein and Barbara Romaine about ‘Waiting for the Past’
“Wars shrouded every corner of our country with some painful tale, and I built Narjis’ character out of what happened to many.”
Newly Translated Fiction: Emile Habibi’s ‘At Last the Almond Blossomed’
“Is this why you came to visit now?”
Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid Win 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize
“In its direct, stripped-back lines, the collection demonstrates both the limits and the necessity of language, inviting us to ask, together, how we can move through and beyond suffering.”
New Poetry from Ghassan Al-Jibai: ‘You Call It a Grave, I Call It a Flowerpot’
“I am as you’ve always known me / Arms crossed over my chest / Like a stone bridge”
From Suleiman Naguib’s 1923 ‘Memoirs of a Coachman’
“Memoirs of a Coachman [Mudhakkirat ʿArbagi] tells us the story of Egypt’s 1919 revolution from the margins.”
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