By Tugrul Mende This month, a second of Huzama Habayeb’s novels was published in English translation, this time by MacLehose Press. Before the Queen Falls Asleep was translated by Kay […]
As always, there may be books we have missed. If there are, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. Out of Gaza, ed. Atef Alshaer and Alan […]
Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet, by contrast, is unafraid of its fullness: its gold jewelry, its fleshy abundance, its black velvet, and most of all, its melancholic and romantic lyrics, as sung by legendary Lebanese diva Fairouz.
“The feeling of being in a temporary place, which I might lose, makes me work harder to control and conquer it.”
