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Hanan al-Shaykh

Upcoming Events: Fundraiser for Beirut, Adabiyat Book Club, Kayfa Ta & More

2021-04-24

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Upcoming Events: Susan Abulhawa, Mona Kareem, Michael Sells’ ‘Translator of Desires’ & More

2021-04-17

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Upcoming Events: Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship Anthology, Rabih Alameddine & more

2021-04-10

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Upcoming Events: Layla AlAmmar, Ahmad Almallah, Jokha Alharthi & More

2021-04-03

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Upcoming Events: ‘Zikra: Remembering ‘Abd al-Halim Hafiz,’ In Honor of Nawal El Saadawi, More

2021-03-27

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Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online

2018-08-06

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

‘Go and Look Properly’ for the Best of Arabic Fiction

2011-04-26

Hanan al-Shaykh: I feel like saying to publishers, ‘Go and look properly for someone to advise you, and be serious about it – rather than being sloppy about it because it‘s foreign.’ Continue Reading

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  • An Excerpt from Hussein Barghouthi’s ‘The Blue Light’: Introduction to the Psychology of Fog

    “It is said that blue is an antidote to sexual excitation—and I was a raging bull then. It is also said that blue calms the nerves—and I was on the edge of madness, bad temper was my inheritance, my father was known for it.”

  • 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.

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