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Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘My Mother’s Glasses, a Tunisian Prison Memoir’

2020-12-11

“It was Friday, May 9, 1975. We had just ended a hunger strike a few days earlier.”Continue Reading

12 Must-read Memoirs in Arabic

2019-05-09

A list of 12 must-read memoirs written in Arabic, half of which have been translated into English.Continue Reading

Haitham Hussein’s Letter to Agatha Christie: ‘Are You Happy Here?’

2018-05-09

In your book, you wrote about that part of the world called the Middle East: “This is a simple and, I think, consequently a happy part of the world.”Continue Reading

Poetry

New and featured poems.

Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

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Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.

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  • Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’

    “It doesn’t feel like an Arabic novel any more to me, now that it’s translated,” Hosam Aboul-ela said. “it feels like a really unique novel of Marxist international revolution.”

  • From Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s ‘A Friend’s Kitchen’

    Next month, Poetry Translation Centre is releasing a collection of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, A Friend’s Kitchen, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook. To mark the occasion, they have shared an excerpt from the introduction and two poems from the collection.

  • New Releases in June & July 2023: A Focus on Syria

    As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please let us know at info@arablit.org.

  • New Short Fiction: Ahmed Fouad Eldin’s ‘Leeway’

    ” Baffled by each other’s proximity and propelled by the desire to brew our drink before the other, we both stretch out our hands, and then draw them back.”

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Poetry

New and featured poems.

Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

Podcast

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.

Upcoming Events

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