Layla AlAmmar – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

Post-Millennial MENAWA: a 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference

This conference, taking place online on June 21 and 22, examines MENAWA creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms.

Adabiyat Book Club: ‘Silence is a Sense’ by Layla AlAmmar

Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday, June 19 at 12 pm EST via Zoom to discuss Layla AlAmmar’s novel Silence is a Sense.

From ArabLit Quarterly

Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic

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.

Lancaster Litfest: Layla AlAmmar & Leila Aboulela, with Lindsey Moore

Kuwaiti-American author Layla AlAmmar and Sudanese-British writer Leila Aboulela read and discuss their fiction with Dr Lindsey Moore of Lancaster University.

International Women’s Day: Layla AlAmmar, Edna Adan Ismail, and Etaf Rum

Authors Etaf Rum and Layla AlAmmar, and woman’s rights activist Edna Adan Ismail, discuss their books, their favourite female artists and the women that inspire them.

Book Group and Author Visit: Layla AlAmmar – ‘Silence is a Sense’

Romancing the Gothic’s open book group is reading ‘Silence is a Sense’ this week and will be joined by author Layla AlAmmar.

Fiction

An Excerpt from Laila AlOthman’s Classic ‘Wasmiya Comes Out of the Sea’

“His heart will trill as he draws in his bounty. He will sniff the mouth of each fish for that aroma he adores. Perhaps the fish will bring him treasures from the depths. Her ring. Her necklace. Some trinket or keepsake.”