Layla AlAmmar

Announcing: Judges for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Submission Dates

March 30, 2021

The 2021 ArabLit Story Prize will open to submissions on April 1, 2021.

March 27, 2021

A few upcoming online events.

September 21, 2020

Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.

November 25, 2019

Yet there were far fewer contemporary prose works produced bilingually, and even fewer that remain in print. Please do add others in the comments.

September 13, 2018

How does the Ministry of Information in Kuwait oversight committee manage to ban 4390 books in five years?

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New and featured poetry in translation.

Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

.An exploration of power and language with Yasmeen Hanoosh

A look at Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from our magazine.

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.