Shahla Ujayli

Banipal Book Club: Shahla Ujayli’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’

The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’, tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.Continue Reading

9 Short Stories by Syrian Women, in Translation

As far as we know, there is not an anthology of work by Syrian women writers, in English translation.Continue Reading

From the Archives: Shahla Ujayli on Getting Raqqa Back Through Writing

“It is not easy for me to summarize in these lines my emotional relationship — with all its fluctuations — with Raqqa!”Continue Reading

New in Translation: A Story from ‘Bed for the King’s Daughter’

“When it sidled up beside me at the traffic light, I turned and saw a coffin through the side glass panel.”Continue Reading

#WiTMonth Conversations: Shahla Ujayli and Getting Raqqa Back Through Writing

“Raqqa is no longer the city I knew; I belong to a place that no longer exists. I try to get it back through writing.”Continue Reading

Friday Finds: ‘The Memoirs of Cinderella’s Slipper’

“The following day Cinderella had set out in it for a job interview at a company. She’d stormed out of the house, hoping to escape her stepmother’s tyranny by getting a job and leaving home for good.”Continue Reading

Language, Teaching, and Translations that ‘Carry That Feeling of Arabic’

“I have written quite a bit…on the changes that Arab women’s writing undergoes in translation, and how the changes I have observed and analyzed reveal a pattern that upholds problematic stereotypes of Arab women.”Continue Reading