Songs for Darkness

Lit Lists A Mask the Color of the Sky, Addie Leak, Areej Gamal, Bassem Khandaqji, Hamoud Saud, Iman Humaydan Yunis, Mariam It's Arwa, Michelle Hartman, Songs for Darkness, Syria: The Fall of Eternity, The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman, Zia Ahmed

Forthcoming March 2026: Big Novels and Intimate Short Stories

February 28, 2026

As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know.

Interviews Hiyem Cheurfa, Iman Humaydan, Songs for Darkness

On Post-War Writing, Women’s Stories, and Translation: A Talk with Iman Humaydan

January 27, 2025

Iman Humaydan is a Lebanese writer, researcher, and academic. She is the cofounder of PEN Lebanon and was its president between 2015 and 2023. She was also a board member of PEN […]