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Salma Harland

Newly Translated Fiction: Emile Habibi’s ‘At Last the Almond Blossomed’

2022-11-21

“Is this why you came to visit now?”Continue Reading

January Translation Challenge: Kushajim

2022-01-03

“Nothing could be more befitting than Kushājim’s epigrammatic riddles.”Continue Reading

From the FOLK Issue: ‘Death in Three Portraits’

2021-12-27

Bakhit Al-Bashari lay in his sickbed, the same bed he once made with his bare hands from the stalks of palm fronds. Continue Reading

Launching the FOLK Issue: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That ‘Refuse to Be Erased’

2021-12-15

“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”Continue Reading

Lit & Found: Four Gastronomic Poems by Kushajim

2021-11-26

“In his gastronomic poems, Kushājim not only details the preparation methods and ingredients needed for certain dishes but also the impact that their elegant presentation has on the banquet guests.”Continue Reading

Two Poems by Kamal Kheir Beik, tr. Salma Harland

2021-03-03

A story circulated by his friends holds that a paper was found in his bloody shirt, which contained a last, unfinished, poem. It read: “By my horse / I laid dead on the pavement, homeland slipping away.”Continue Reading

Monday Poetry: Ghareeb Iskander’s ‘Great Perplexity’

2021-01-18

“In translating Derek Walcott / Words stalk / Like egrets do / In his later poems / Where he wanted / To speak of regret”Continue Reading

Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams

2020-12-15

“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.” Continue Reading

Three Poems by Sargon Boulus Award-Winning Emad Abu Saleh

2020-11-16

“They were not sieving, / But dancing to the rhythm.”Continue Reading

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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  • Nada Faris on Why She Stopped Avoiding Translation & Bringing Bothayna Al-Essa’s ‘Lost in Mecca’ into English

    ” I often avoided translation events because of the ways in which propaganda often slipped into discussions. Even the most liberal and well-meaning teachers were guilty of claiming that the Arabic language is more beautiful and more complex than all other languages and that Arabic poetry is incomparable and thus untranslatable.”

  • Summer Reads: 12 Arab Authors Recommend

    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.

  • 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.

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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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