Lit & Found: A Translation of Wael Kadour’s Short Play, ‘Up There’
The 2023 issue of Arab Stages includes a translation of Syrian playwright Wael Kadour’s short play Up There, a play based on the testimonies of former detainees in Syria, and […]
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Lit & Found: Poems by the Late Zakaria Mohammed
Palestinian poet Zakaria Mohammed passed away aged 73 on August 2, 2023. The winner of the 2020 Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Culture and Creativity, Mohammed published several novels and plays, […]
Lit & Found: Interview with a Reluctant (Award-winning) Translator
“I don’t see myself as an intermediary at all. I see myself as a reader. I am an expert reader because I can speak the language and I know its history, and because I understand some things about the context of the text that I read.”
Lit & Found: A Poem by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
“Maya’s poems are made of such dailiness, the extreme violence of a colonizing force punctuating days filled with humor and compassion and small failures and sweeping loves.”
‘The Last One’ by Fatima Daas Wins Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt Prize
” All of this is told in a precisely poetic and incredibly contemporary way, drawing on traditions of Arabic literatures with great naturalness and range (Qur’an, poetry, rap).”