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Lit & Found: ‘The Gifts of Movement,’ a Talk with Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous

2023-05-26

“I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.”Continue Reading

The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson

2023-04-28

Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. SarajevoContinue Reading

The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson

2022-10-04

Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. SarajevoContinue Reading

Writers Select: New & Inventive Algerian Voices

2022-02-01

We asked a number of Iraqi writers, translators, and scholars to put together a list of their highlights from Iraqi literature. Continue Reading

Banipal Book Club – ‘Sarajevo Firewood’

2021-11-09

Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of ‘Sarajevo Firewood’ by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey.Continue Reading

Said Khatibi on the Entanglements of Story in Bosnia and Algeria

2020-01-08

“When the war began in Sarajevo I was a child. I was in southern Algeria then. We sang songs in school about the children of Sarajevo, and we saw pictures of what was happening there on TV.”Continue Reading

‘Firewood of Sarajevo’: Testimonies against Amnesia and for an Alternative History

2019-12-24

The novel was inspired, in part, by a 2018 workshop organized by me and Cherifa Kheddar, Director of the NGO Djazairouna, where we brought together survivors of the Algerian Civil war with writers, artists, psychologists, filmmakers and journalists. The objective was to translate first-hand testimonies into different media, including literature.Continue Reading

Poetry

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Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

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  • Lit & Found: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Mona Kareem, and ‘Exportability & Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West’

    “It doesn’t feel like an Arabic novel any more to me, now that it’s translated,” Hosam Aboul-ela said. “it feels like a really unique novel of Marxist international revolution.”

  • From Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s ‘A Friend’s Kitchen’

    Next month, Poetry Translation Centre is releasing a collection of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, A Friend’s Kitchen, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook. To mark the occasion, they have shared an excerpt from the introduction and two poems from the collection.

  • New Releases in June & July 2023: A Focus on Syria

    As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please let us know at info@arablit.org.

  • New Short Fiction: Ahmed Fouad Eldin’s ‘Leeway’

    ” Baffled by each other’s proximity and propelled by the desire to brew our drink before the other, we both stretch out our hands, and then draw them back.”

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Poetry

New and featured poems.

Fiction

New and featured short fiction.

Interviews

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

News

News of Arabic literature & translations.

On Translation

Thoughts, challenges, and essays on the art and craft of translation.

For Translators

Resources for translators working between Arabic and English.

Reviews

Reviews of Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

From the Quarterly

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from ArabLit Quarterly.

Podcast

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.

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