Leonie Rau – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

Launching ‘In Focus: ALGERIA’

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

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

“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

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

“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.”