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.
Leri Price
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Planet of Clay’ by Samar Yazbek
Join MENAWAPoco’s April 2022 virtual book discussion, of Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay’ (tr. Leri Price) at 5pm UK time.
Lit & Found: Samar Yazbek Talks ‘Planet of Clay’
“So when I wrote this novel it was like Odysseus returning to Ithaca. Yes, through writing the novel I returned to myself, and I think I am better as a result.”
2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
Join the 2021 National Book Award Finalists Reading with Samar Yazbek and Leri Price (“Planet of Clay”).
Samar Yazbek, Translator Leri Price Shortlisted for National Book Award for ‘Planet of Clay’
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have made the five-book shortlist of the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.
Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay,’ tr. Leri Price, Longlisted for National Book Award
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have been longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.
Announcing: Judges for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Submission Dates
The 2021 ArabLit Story Prize will open to submissions on April 1, 2021.
Khaled Khalifa’s ‘Death is Hard Work’ a National Book Award Finalist
Winners will be announced on November 20.
On Raja Alem’s ‘Sarab’ & Translating an Arabic Book Not Published in Arabic
“I was honoured to work on this for many reasons, but I have to say that Raja’s process of not publishing the Arabic first really felt like a mark of faith in what translators can do, and recognition of the different value they can bring to a text.”