Recommended Reading: Novelist Hadiya Hussein on 5 Iraqi Books
Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein recommends five works of Iraqi literature.Continue Reading
Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein recommends five works of Iraqi literature.Continue Reading
“Wars shrouded every corner of our country with some painful tale, and I built Narjis’ character out of what happened to many.”Continue Reading
This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.Continue Reading
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.” Continue Reading
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 approaches taken by the works on the five-story shortlist, to award the top prize to “Tunnels,” written by Iraqi authorContinue Reading
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.Continue Reading
“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.”Continue Reading
Each Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit selects 10 Arabic short stories by women, in translation, online.Continue Reading
For #WITMonth, ten short stories by women, translated from Arabic to English, by writers from Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.Continue Reading
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