Banipal Issue 70: ‘Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem’
The Spring 2021 issue of Banipal, their 70th, has a special focus on Palestinian author Mahmoud Shukair.
Mahmoud Shukair
An Excerpt from Mahmoud Shukair’s ‘Me, My Friend, and the Donkey’
A humorous donkey detective novel for young adults, set in and around Jerusalem.
Friday Finds: 6 in Translation by Mahmoud Shukair
Shukair also appears today at 11 a.m. Eastern time (US) for a “Coffee & Books” session with Nur Masalha, in which they discuss Shukair’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel Praise for the Women of the Family.
#PalestineWrites: Literature, Erasure, and Preservation
“Shukair stressed the important role Arab educational institutions play in keeping Palestinian literature alive.”
9 Forthcoming in November 2018
Nine translations from the Arabic — at least, translated from the Arabic in some roundabout fashion — forthcoming this month.