Launching ‘In Focus: ALGERIA’
Our second focus is Algeria, co-curated by Nadia Ghanem and Leonie Rau.
Nadia Ghanem
9 Short Stories by Algerian Women, in Translation
We hope to see more Algerian women’s writing in translation. For now, we recommend these four stories, all translated from French.
From the Archives: Safia Ketou, the First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria
“– You are on the Mauve Planet.”
Announcing: Judges for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Submission Dates
The 2021 ArabLit Story Prize will open to submissions on April 1, 2021.
New Lit: Baya Mahieddine’s ‘The Great Great Big Bird’
“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.
Bulaq 53: ‘Murder, They Wrote’
Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ.
180+ Books: A Look at Moroccan Literature Available in English
ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English.
‘Fatma n’Parapli’: Comix Exploring Women’s Lives, Mental Illness, and Community
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.
Abdelouahab Aissaoui on Publishing Realities, Challenges, and Dreams in Algeria
“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.”
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