Suneela Mubayi

My Neighbor By Ali Al-Douagi Translated by Amr El-Zawawy (3)

From ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry Bassam Saba, Suneela Mubayi, Walid Daou

Song for Bassam Saba

September 3, 2026

This poem originally appeared in our 2021 SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly.

Poetry Suneela Mubayi, Wadih Saadeh

Poetry in Translation: Wadih Saadeh’s ‘The Suicides’

January 30, 2024

This translation initially ran in our Summer 2019 issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Who stormed checkpoints, taboos and fears, who conquered the darkness of the tunnel as they passed through it […]

From ArabLit Quarterly Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmed Abdulatif, Aidan Kaplan, Ameer Hamad, Andrew Leber, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Barrack Rima, Belal Fadl, Chip Rossetti, David Kanbergs, Emad Abu Saleh, Enas Eltorky, Gretchen Head, Hadiya Hussein, Karim Zidan, Katherine Van de Vate, Maqbul al-Alawi, Muhammad Khudayyir, N.A. Mansour, Nada El Shabrawy, Nawal Nasrallah, Rana Issa, Sahar Elmougy, Salma Harland, Salma Hesham, Shakir Mustafa, Sherehan Saad, Suneela Mubayi, Tareq Imam, Yasmine Seale, Zakaria Tamer, Zeena Faulk

Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams

December 15, 2020

“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”

News Adam Thirlwell, Adania Shibli, Ahmed Naji, Ben Koerber, Hassan Najmi, Hassân Al Mohtasib, Melanie Magidow, Muhammad al-Hajj, Najwa Binshatwan, Nazik al-Malaika, Ramy al-Asheq, Rawan Maki, Salim al-Abbar, Suneela Mubayi, Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè, Wadih Saadeh, Yasmine Zohdi

Extend Your Summer with the New ArabLit Quarterly: The Sea

September 3, 2019

Includes the perfect hot-and-sweet late-summer story from Muhammad al-Hajj, in pitch-perfect translation by Yasmine Zohdi.

News Abdul Rahman Munif, Anthony Calderbank, Asmaa Azaizeh, ‘Otared’, ” Fatima El-Kalay, David Kanbergs, Hanan Natour, Lamia Ziadé, Layla Azmi Goushey, M Lynx Qualey, Marilyn Hacker, Mohammed Rabie, Muhammad Abdelnabi, Munsif al-Wahaybi, Olivia Snaije, Raja Alem, Rana Ghuloom, Rasha Abbas, Robin Moger, Sania Saleh, Sofia Samatar, Stella Gaitano, Suneela Mubayi, Tayeb Salih, Wadie Saadeh, Yasmine Seale, Zakaria Tamer, Zeina Abirached

Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’

November 15, 2018

Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.

POETRY

New and featured poetry in translation.

FICTION

Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

INTERVIEWS

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

BETWEEN TWO TRANSLATORS

.An exploration of power and language with Yasmeen Hanoosh

Reviews

A look at Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

May Ziadeh

More on our translation of May Ziadeh's Musings of a Young Woman.

Podcast

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Lit Lists

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.