The Sheikh Zayed Book Award and SOAS are organising an event on “Translation and Cultural Exchange” featuring Nawal Nasrallah, Katharine Halls, and Prof. Wang Youyong, moderated by Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang.Continue Reading
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present. Continue Reading
“Sometimes I think that if humans are allotted a fixed amount of life that’s distributed out over the course of their years, then maybe we used up our share in those moments of concentrated life that we imbibed so hungrily and so madly.”Continue Reading
“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”Continue Reading
This special event taking place as part of the Dubai Expo is for literary translators, publishers, writers and other professionals involved in Arabic literature and translation.Continue Reading
“The reader will never know these things, but I like to know them so I can orient myself properly towards the text. I want to come at the text in the right direction.”Continue Reading
ArabLit is delighted to announce that this year’s judges selected five stories for the shortlist of the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, by five writers from four countries: Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco.Continue Reading
The panel “Arabic Literature in Berlin” is the kickoff event for the 2021 BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere digital festival, supported by the Royal Society for Literature. Get a preview of works by the participating authors, translators, and publishers.Continue Reading
A few upcoming events, taking place online.Continue Reading
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