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
