Four of Rawaa Sonbol’s short stories were included in the recent wide-ranging collection of contemporary Syrian literature, Aftershocks, edited by Alia Malek and published by McSweeney’s last December. All four […]
JANUARY 8, 2025 — Organizers today announced that the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Katharine Halls for her “masterclass” of a translation […]
DECEMBER 2, 2024 — Organizers today announced the six-book shortlist of the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. The shortlisted works reflect both the widening scope of […]
If you know of other Arabic books forthcoming in translation in December 2024 that should be added to this list, please let us know either in the comments or at […]
JANUARY 25, 2024 — Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are granted in eight categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, […]
By Tugrul Mende This month, Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison was published in Katharine Halls’ English translation. The book chronicles Naji’s two years in prison, which […]
By M Lynx Qualey Headed up by Sandra Hetzl, Katharine Halls, and Alice Guthrie, 10/11 is “a literary agency operating in Europe that specializes in bold, exciting, contemporary Arabic literature.” […]
“I don’t see myself as an intermediary at all. I see myself as a reader. I am an expert reader because I can speak the language and I know its history, and because I understand some things about the context of the text that I read.”
“I sat in the shade at the tram stop, smoking a cigarette and watching the heavy traffic that clogged the street.”
