Friday Finds: New Stories in Translation by Mazen Maarouf and Najwa Binshatwan
2020-02-21
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.Continue Reading
Winner of 2019 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘The Sharp Bend at Al-Bakur’
2019-10-15
“The story suggests that the innocent dead were sacrificed for the vanity of those in power and those who seek it.”Continue Reading
Shortlist for 2019 ArabLit Story Prize
2019-09-15
After a good deal of debate, the judges of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize settled on a four-story shortlist, with works by Mahmoud Hosny, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Mohamed Al-Ashry, and Samar Nour.Continue Reading
‘Blank Bullets’: 2 Poems by Manahel Alsahoui
2019-08-30
Dozens of soldiers will love me now
They will shove me onto a bed of blank bulletsContinue Reading
Special Excerpt: ‘Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate’
2019-08-28
Saudi Novelist Omaima Al-Khamis’ Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate was winner of the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal and also longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: The novel is forthcoming in translation from Hoopoe Fiction; this excerpt appears with their permission. By Omaima al-Khamis Translated byContinue Reading
Classics, Revisited: Pre-release Excerpt of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’
2019-08-25
“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.”Continue Reading
Read an Excerpt from Badriya Albeshr’s ‘Thursdays Visitors,’ Newly Banned in Saudi
2017-11-03
“The ministry of culture and information has withdrawn the book ‘Thursday’s Visitors’… and opened an investigation into the matter.”Continue Reading
