Recommended Reading: Novelist Hadiya Hussein on 5 Iraqi Books
Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein recommends five works of Iraqi literature.
Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein recommends five works of Iraqi literature.
“Wars shrouded every corner of our country with some painful tale, and I built Narjis’ character out of what happened to many.”
This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize are Hadiya Hussein and Shakir Mustafa for “Tunnels”: This year’s judges decided, after deliberation focused on translational […]
This year’s shortlisted stories — selected blindly, as in past years — were chosen by Hilal Chouman, Donia Kamal, and 2019 ArabLit Story Prize winning translator Sawad Hussain.
“You’ll find something that looks like a boulder, but it’s not—it’s cork, painted so that it resembles rock. Push it aside and go out. A few meters away you’ll find someone who’ll look after you.”
Each Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit selects 10 Arabic short stories by women, in translation, online.
For #WITMonth, ten short stories by women, translated from Arabic to English, by writers from Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.