Last month, Jokha Alharthi’s latest novel — her third in English translation — appeared in Marilyn Booth’s translation. In Silken Gazelles, an excerpt of which appears today on ArabLit, the […]
FEBRUARY 26, 2024 — Organizers today announced that the first-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize, an international award for the translation of Arabic literature into English, goes to Marilyn Booth’s translation […]
Adabiyat Book Club will meet on Sunday, November 20 at 12 pm EST via Zoom to discuss Jokha Alharthi’s novel Bitter Orange Tree. To participate, message the organizers on Twitter […]
Join MENAWA’s virtual book club to discuss Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost (tr. Marilyn Booth) on December 15, 5 pm UK time. Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com to join.
November 23, 2021 — This morning, organizers of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation announced this year’s shortlist. Three translators have made the shortlist of the Banipal […]
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
Join moderator Nariman Youssef and panellists Marilyn Booth, M Lynx Qualey, and Bishan Samaddar for a discussion on the contemporary translation scene and where we are heading next.
“Oh!! Titles… sometimes I think I stress over titles – and opening sentences – for more hours than I spend on the rest of the translation.”
“When Zaynab Fawwaz died in early 1914, long obituaries appeared in Egypt’s newspapers: she was not forgotten in her own time.”
