Leonie Rau – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

Launching ‘In Focus: ALGERIA’

February 1, 2022

Our second focus is Algeria, co-curated by Nadia Ghanem and Leonie Rau.

From ArabLit Quarterly Adel Khozam, Alaa Murad, Alan Elbaum, Ali al-Jamri, ArabLit Quarterly, Eman Quotah, folk, Jess Martin, Katharine Halls, Leonie Rau, Mariam Qahtani, Mbarek Sryfi, Melanie Magidow, Nicholas Mangialardi, Norah Alkharashi, Omar Al Jadhee, Rawan Maki, Salma Harland, Sonia Nimr, Sonia Sulaiman, Stephen Slessor, Will Pewitt, Yahia Al-Tahir Abdullah, Zainab Almahdi

Launching the FOLK Issue: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That ‘Refuse to Be Erased’

December 15, 2021

“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.'”

From ArabLit Quarterly Adania Shibli, Alexander E. Elinson, Ameer Hamad, Anam Zafar, ArabLit Quarterly, Becki Maddock, Daniel Behar, Farid Abdel Azim, Hajar Mahfoodh, Hatem Alzahrani, Hicham Rafik, Huda al-Daghfaq, Iraqi Shalash, Khadidja Bouchellia, Khaled Ahmed Youssef, Lameen Souag, Leonie Rau, Luqman Derky, Mahmoud Mostafa, Mina Ibrahim, Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Muhammad El-Hajj, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Nariman Youssef, Omar Ibrahim, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Yasmine Zohdi, Yassin Adnan, Zeena Faulk

On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly

September 16, 2021

“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”