Rasha Abbas

Lit Lists Amal Bouchareb, Amir Tag Elsir, Bothayna al-Essa, Eman Al-Yousuf, Hilal Chouman, Lena Merhej, Mortada Gzar, Najwa Binshatwan, Rasha Abbas, Said Khatibi, Saud Alsanousi, summer reads, Wajdi al-Ahdal

Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend

June 5, 2023

The twelve authors from nine countries who recommended books for our list of 2023 summer reads had different ideas about what you need in a summer book.

Ahmed Naji, Dunya Mikhail, Elisabeth Jaquette, Kareem Abu-Zeid, literary festivals, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Narrating the Middle East, Nathalie Handal, Rabih Alameddine, Rasha Abbas, Yasmina Jraissati, Zeina Azzam, Zeina Hashem Beck

The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East

May 11, 2022

“Narrating the Middle East” is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.

From ArabLit Quarterly Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Ahmed Magdy Hammam, al-Jahiz, Ali Jaafar Al Allaq, Alice Holttum, ArabLit Quarterly, Burnaby Hawkes, Dima El-Mouallem, Duna Ghali, Enas Eltorky, Ghada Alatrash, Hilal Badr, Ibrahim Fawzy, Jonas Elbousty, Karima Ahdad, Katharine Halls, Layla AlAmmar, Madeline Edwards, Maheera Migdadi, Maisaa Tanjour, Michael Payne, MIRRORS, Mohamed Choukri, Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, Nawal Nasrallah, Nawara Belal, Qassim Majeed, Ra’ad Abdulqadir, Rasha Abbas, Reem Abbas, Rema Hmoud, Rym Jalil, Said Takieddine, Sara Abou Rashed, Shahd Alshammari, Shakir Mustafa, Zeena Faulk

Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic

March 15, 2022

In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present.

Interviews, On Translation 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Katharine Halls, Rasha Abbas

2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Katharine Halls on Dismantling and Rebuilding Stories

October 11, 2021

“The reader will never know these things, but I like to know them so I can orient myself properly towards the text. I want to come at the text in the right direction.”

Fiction Ahmed Magdy Hammam, Alice Holttum, ArabLit Story Prize, Burnaby Hawkes, Dima El-Mouallem, Karima Ahdad, Katharine Halls, Katherine Van de Vate, Maisaa Tanjour, Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, Rasha Abbas, Said Takieddine

Judges Choose Inventive, Varied Shortlist for 2021 ArabLit Story Prize

September 15, 2021

ArabLit is delighted to announce that this year’s judges selected five stories for the shortlist of the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, by five writers from four countries: Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco.

Lit Lists, Syria, WiTMonth #WITMonth, Colette Bahna, Ghada Samman, Haifa Bitar, Marwa Melhem, Noor Dakerli, Ola al-Jaber, Rasha Abbas, Shahla Ujayli, Widyan Almasarani, Women in Translation Month