Gretchen Head

From ArabLit Quarterly Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmed Abdulatif, Aidan Kaplan, Ameer Hamad, Andrew Leber, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Barrack Rima, Belal Fadl, Chip Rossetti, David Kanbergs, Emad Abu Saleh, Enas Eltorky, Gretchen Head, Hadiya Hussein, Karim Zidan, Katherine Van de Vate, Maqbul al-Alawi, Muhammad Khudayyir, N.A. Mansour, Nada El Shabrawy, Nawal Nasrallah, Rana Issa, Sahar Elmougy, Salma Harland, Salma Hesham, Shakir Mustafa, Sherehan Saad, Suneela Mubayi, Tareq Imam, Yasmine Seale, Zakaria Tamer, Zeena Faulk

Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams

December 15, 2020

“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”

Teaching with Arabic literature in translation Gretchen Head, Teaching with Arabic literature in translation, World Literature

Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘World Literature and its Discontents’

April 30, 2018

“World Literature tends to focus on questions of circulation and reception, and this is inevitably tied to modes of reading. The difference between the way a text is read in English and the way it’s read in Arabic has been at the heart of some of the biggest 20th century literary controversies in the Middle East and North Africa.”