With Joy & Glad Tidings: The WEDDINGS Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
Performers and performance are also central to weddings, both for their ability to entertain and to temporarily violate social norms.
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An Excerpt from Ahmed El Fakharany’s ‘The Quail King: An Alexandrian Odyssey’
“I was nineteen years old, working in Mu`allim Idris’s workshop, when I asked him about the age of the Universe.”
‘The Poet of Life Which was Merciless to Him’: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra on Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
The great Palestinian writer, who lived many years in Iraq, remembers his friend Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.
Launching ‘In Focus: SUDAN’
We launch this section with a discussion of the exciting new voices with Sudanese authors, an overview of Sudanese women’s writing, and a list of Sudanese literature available in English. Coming later this week, we have short stories by Fatima as-Sanoussi and Ibrahim Ishag, and poetry by Mughira Harbya.
Special Section: On Self-translation
In this special section on self-translation, authors and author-translators Mona Kareem, Khalid Lyamlahy, Deena Mohamed, Dunya Mikhail, and Ali Shakir reflect on what it means to transport their own writing from one of their languages to another.
On Publication Day, A Look Back: Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s I Do Not Sleep appears this month from Hoopoe Fiction, in Jonathan Smolin’s translation.
What Distinguished Humphrey Davies: Irreverent and Faithful Acts of Transcreation
“For us readers of Arabic that are thirsty for a more inclusive canon that has room for queers, peers, poors, boors, mamas and other sisters, Humphrey’s translations have been central in planting the idea that such a canon does exist and that our search will yield some exciting results, as his search so far has done.”
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