Sunday Submissions: 2023 ArabLit Story Prize
Submissions for the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are open until July 31, 2023.
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5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.
Lit & Found: Muhammad Aladdin’s ‘Season of Migration to Arkadia’
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.
Fiction from Sudan: Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘A Veteran Warrior’
“Will they shoot again?” the little girl asks her mother.
Fiction from the Magazine: Raghad Qasim’s ‘Hair or No Hair’
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “
‘Arsène Lupin,’ a Short Story by Sonallah Ibrahim
“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. “
New Fiction in Translation: ‘Naked Robot’
“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.”
Short Story Original: Hilal Chouman’s ‘World of Dogs’
“He keeps walking. The buildings, rubble, and garbage around him duplicate and multiply.”
Friday Finds: New Work in Translation by Hassan Blasim, Fadwa Soleiman
Blasim also has a forthcoming novel, God 99, that follows Hassan Owl, an Iraqi who arrives in Finland as a writer and a refugee.
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