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Fiction, From ArabLit Quarterly Karim Zidan, Naguib Mahfouz

From ArabLit Quarterly: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’

September 6, 2021

“Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.”

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.”

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News Ameer Hamad, Amgad ElSabban, ArabLit Quarterly, Basem L. Ra’ad, cats, David Kanbergs, David Larsen, Diaa Jubaili, Dima El-Mouallem, Emily Selove, featuredAL, Ghada Samman, Hisham Bustani, Hoda Marmar, Issa J. Boullata, Karim Zidan, Kevin Blankinship, Layla AlAmmar, Layla Baalbaki, Mariam Antar, Michrafy Abdelwadoud, Mona Khedr, Muthaffar al-Nawab, Phoebe Bay Carter, Rehab Bassam, Tamim Hnaidi, Thoraya El Rayyes, Tom Abi Samra, Zahra Hankir, Zeena Faulk

ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue

September 21, 2020

Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.

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From ArabLit Quarterly ALQ: The Eye, Karim Zidan, Naguib Mahfouz

Lock-in Limited Release: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’

May 11, 2020

Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.

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