New Poetry in Translation: ‘Love’ by Ahmed Yamani
2022-10-03
“Love / was the axe that strikes // Love / was the hand holding the axe”Continue Reading
On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
2021-09-16
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”Continue Reading
Monday Fiction: An Excerpt from ‘Fellini’s Shoe’
2021-05-17
“That’s exactly what happened. We all looked left at the same time.”Continue Reading
From Ahmed Atallah’s ‘Mariam: A True Story’
2020-07-02
“Mariam: A True Story” was written mostly in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, detailing the quiet love between a young Egyptian Christian man and an Egyptian Christian woman turned into a taboo by the society around them.Continue Reading
Lock-in Summer of Lit: Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud’s ‘Crocodiles’ Laughter’
2020-06-22
He asked her whether she’d seen his crocodile. She exhaled angrily.Continue Reading
