Launching ‘In Focus: ALGERIA’
2022-02-01
Our second focus is Algeria, co-curated by Nadia Ghanem and Leonie Rau.Continue Reading
9 Short Stories by Algerian Women, in Translation
2021-08-11
We hope to see more Algerian women’s writing in translation. For now, we recommend these four stories, all translated from French.Continue Reading
From the Archives: Safia Ketou, the First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria
2021-05-06
“– You are on the Mauve Planet.”Continue Reading
Announcing: Judges for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Submission Dates
2021-03-30
The 2021 ArabLit Story Prize will open to submissions on April 1, 2021.Continue Reading
New Lit: Baya Mahieddine’s ‘The Great Great Big Bird’
2020-08-10
“Le Grand Zoiseau” narrates the story of a little girl who wants to marry, and, seeing her mother deny her the right, she takes matters into her own magic hands.Continue Reading
Bulaq 53: ‘Murder, They Wrote’
2020-07-18
Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ.Continue Reading
180+ Books: A Look at Moroccan Literature Available in English
2020-04-29
ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English.Continue Reading
‘Fatma n’Parapli’: Comix Exploring Women’s Lives, Mental Illness, and Community
2020-02-12
In addition to being “mad,” she was also very clever, and could compose rhyming poetry off the top of her head. She was also a tragic figure in that her mental illness set in after the death of many members of her family during the war, and she was forced to raise her four children on her own.Continue Reading
Abdelouahab Aissaoui on Publishing Realities, Challenges, and Dreams in Algeria
2020-02-04
“A few days ago, I attended the Kuwait Book Fair, and saw that all Arab countries were there, represented by more than one publisher, except Algeria, and this is because of backward laws.”Continue Reading
