The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
2022-05-11
“Narrating the Middle East” is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.Continue Reading
Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic
2022-03-15
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. Continue Reading
2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Katharine Halls on Dismantling and Rebuilding Stories
2021-10-11
“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.”Continue Reading
Judges Choose Inventive, Varied Shortlist for 2021 ArabLit Story Prize
2021-09-15
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.Continue Reading
9 Short Stories by Syrian Women, in Translation
2021-08-25
As far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.Continue Reading
Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
2019-08-15
Each Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), ArabLit selects 10 Arabic short stories by women, in translation, online.Continue Reading
Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
2018-11-15
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.Continue Reading
Listen: 4 Shortlisted for 2018 ArabLit Story Prize
2018-10-01
The four shortlisted stories, read by author or translator.Continue Reading
Announcing: Shortlist for 2018 ArabLit Story Prize
2018-09-15
The four pairs that made the shortlist of the 2018 ArabLit Story Prize are: Palestinian writer Maya Abu-Alhayyat with translator Riham Adly; Egyptian writer Mohammad Abdelnabi with translator Robin Moger; Syrian author Rasha Abbas with translator Fatima El-Kalay; and Saudi novelist Raja Alem with translator Rana Ghuloom.Continue Reading
