Sunday Submissions: 2023 ArabLit Story Prize
Submissions for the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are open until July 31, 2023.
Submissions for the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are open until July 31, 2023.
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.
Egyptian writer Muhammad Aladdin’s short story “Season of Migration to Arkadia” (tr. Humphrey Davies) is available as a free e-book from publisher mikrotext.
“Will they shoot again?” the little girl asks her mother.
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “
“His mouth discharged a second snort. I worried he might attack me, or tear me apart, but he settled his body back into the chair and sighed. “
“Yet none of us could object, as that was the way things were; these were the laws of our society, and we were completely satisfied with them. I didn’t know whether we had a choice in this satisfaction, but I didn’t like to tire my mind thinking about it.”
“He keeps walking. The buildings, rubble, and garbage around him duplicate and multiply.”
Blasim also has a forthcoming novel, God 99, that follows Hassan Owl, an Iraqi who arrives in Finland as a writer and a refugee.