Novelist Mohammed Hanif on the Re-release of Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic ‘Wild Thorns’
“Wild Thorns is an ambulance ride of a book, complete with a red light and blaring siren. It’s urgent and essential.”
Sahar Khalifeh
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Passage to the Plaza’ by Sahar Khalifeh
Join MENAWAPoco’s May 2022 virtual book discussion, of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Passage to the Plaza’ (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time.
Sahar Khalifeh: ‘I Am A Committed Writer, Or Maybe I Am An Obsessed Writer’
“I am a committed writer or maybe I am an obsessed writer. I am obsessed by occupation because I live it. I witness the atrocities of occupation. I witness and live through those atrocities and still am living them.”
New from Hoopoe Fiction, An Excerpt of ‘My First & Only Love’
“Spies were everywhere.”
Aida Bamia on Why ‘My First and Only Love’ Was Such An Emotional Translation Experience
” This novel was the most emotional for me to translate, as it also marked the end of a comfortable childhood for me and my siblings, and the beginning of a life in exile.”
‘Tight Spaces’: Bulaq on ‘Bab as-Saha,’ ‘Nos Richesses,’ and Quarantine
Our forty-seventh episode — “Tight Spaces” — talks about the ups and downs of recent online book events, as well as two novels that have recently appeared in English.
Cover Reveal: Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’ is ‘Passage to the Plaza’
Khalifeh’s classic novel is forthcoming next February 15 from Seagull Books in Sawad Hussain’s translation as “Passage to the Plaza.”
Classics, Revisited: Pre-release Excerpt of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’
“In the furnace of conflict at the heart of the 1987 Intifada, notions of freedom, love, respectability, nationhood, the rights of women and Palestinian identity…will be melted and re-forged.”
Best 100 Arabic Books (According to the Arab Writers Union): 61-70
This is where you’ll find 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), and here’s 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, and 51-60. Please do help me out with errors and omissions. 61 […]