Maqbul al-Alawi – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

Fiction Andrew Leber, ArabLit Story Prize, Maqbul al-Alawi, Saudi Arabia

Short Fiction: Maqbul al-Alawi’s ‘Phantom of the Sands’

January 23, 2023

It’s a fact—and I grow more certain of this as time goes by—that no matter how many folks we encounter as time goes by, some of their faces strike a chord deep within us. They somehow burrow into our souls, forever marking the course of our lives.

From ArabLit Quarterly Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmed Abdulatif, Aidan Kaplan, Ameer Hamad, Andrew Leber, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Barrack Rima, Belal Fadl, Chip Rossetti, David Kanbergs, Emad Abu Saleh, Enas Eltorky, Gretchen Head, Hadiya Hussein, Karim Zidan, Katherine Van de Vate, Maqbul al-Alawi, Muhammad Khudayyir, N.A. Mansour, Nada El Shabrawy, Nawal Nasrallah, Rana Issa, Sahar Elmougy, Salma Harland, Salma Hesham, Shakir Mustafa, Sherehan Saad, Suneela Mubayi, Tareq Imam, Yasmine Seale, Zakaria Tamer, Zeena Faulk

Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams

December 15, 2020

“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”

News Ahmed Abdulatif, Aidan Kaplan, Andrew Leber, Bilal Fadl, featuredAL, Hadiya Hussein, Mahmoud Younes, Maqbul al-Alawi, Shakir Mustafa, Sherehan Saad, Zakaria Tamer

Announcing the Shortlist for 2020 ArabLit Story Prize

September 15, 2020

This year’s shortlisted stories — selected blindly, as in past years — were chosen by Hilal Chouman, Donia Kamal, and 2019 ArabLit Story Prize winning translator Sawad Hussain.