Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic
2022-03-15
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present. 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
Winner of 2020 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘Tunnels’
2020-10-15
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize are Hadiya Hussein and Shakir Mustafa for “Tunnels”: This year’s judges decided, after deliberation focused on translational approaches taken by the works on the five-story shortlist, to award the top prize to “Tunnels,” written by Iraqi authorContinue Reading
Announcing the Shortlist for 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
2020-09-15
This year’s shortlisted stories — selected blindly, as in past years — were chosen by Hilal Chouman, Donia Kamal, and 2019 ArabLit Story Prize winning translator Sawad Hussain.Continue Reading
5 Arabic Books (in English) to Read ‘Before You Die’
2010-05-26
Well, perhaps this one was a bit morbid: The “Five Before You Die” was a feature we ran back in the summer 2010; by now, there are now many more great Arabic books available in translation, but this remains a strong list from translators, authors, critics, and publishers. Shakir MustafaContinue Reading
