“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
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Winner of 2020 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘Tunnels’
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 […]
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Announcing the Shortlist for 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
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.
Read more5 Arabic Books (in English) to Read ‘Before You Die’
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 […]
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