Winner of 2019 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘The Sharp Bend at Al-Bakur’
“The story suggests that the innocent dead were sacrificed for the vanity of those in power and those who seek it.”
Sawad Hussain
Shortlist for 2019 ArabLit Story Prize
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.
‘Blank Bullets’: 2 Poems by Manahel Alsahoui
Dozens of soldiers will love me now
They will shove me onto a bed of blank bullets
Special Excerpt: ‘Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate’
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: […]
Classics, Revisited: Pre-release Excerpt of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’
“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.”
Read an Excerpt from Badriya Albeshr’s ‘Thursdays Visitors,’ Newly Banned in Saudi
“The ministry of culture and information has withdrawn the book ‘Thursday’s Visitors’… and opened an investigation into the matter.”