5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
2022-12-10
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Samira Azzam’s ‘The Roc Flew Over Shahraban’
2022-12-09
Slowly, we raised our heads as hellish cries echoed in our ears, and we looked up in awe and fear. Continue Reading
A Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam’s ‘Out of Time’
2022-12-08
“When I asked when they sang this song, they said: ‘at weddings!’”Continue Reading
Samira Azzam’s ‘On the Road’
2022-12-07
There goes the bell. I’ve been waiting for so long! I quickly pull my hand from the tub of water where the empty bottles are piled up, ready to be washed and refilled with beer, then loaded up and taken to the city’s bars and nightclubs. There, they’re poured straight into mouths whose thirst will never be quenched. They soon come back to me, empty, waiting to be washed.Continue Reading
Adania Shibli on Samira Azzam: ‘Out of Time’
2022-12-06
“My little watch is the first to sense the change, going into and out of Palestine.”Continue Reading
INTRODUCING ‘Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam’
2022-12-05
Today, we are launching our first crowd-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam.Continue Reading
New: Samira Azzam Collection Forthcoming from ALQ Books
2021-01-26
“The collection — being translated by Ranya Abdelrahman — will draw from the collections published during Azzam’s lifetime.”Continue Reading
Sunday Classics: Samira Azzam, Whose ‘Relative Obscurity Today Is a Grave Injustice’
2020-08-23
“I would love for her entire corpus to be translated, particularly given that what little has been so far is highly unrepresentative of her overall body of literature.”Continue Reading
Translate This! 21 Women You Want to Read in English
2018-08-11
For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we have assembled 21 women from 12 countries who have no book-length work in English, where, if they did, it would improve your day.Continue Reading
