New Poetry from Wadih Saadeh’s Forthcoming Collection
Late this fall, Tenement Press will be bringing out a selection of work by the celebrated Lebanese-Australian poet Wadih Saadeh, titled A Horse at the Door. The book, forthcoming December […]
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Poetry in Translation: Wadih Saadeh’s ‘The Suicides’
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 […]
Friday Finds: ‘Restoring a Dissolved Person’
“This lake is not water. It was a person I had talked to for a long time then he dissolved.”
Extend Your Summer with the New ArabLit Quarterly: The Sea
Includes the perfect hot-and-sweet late-summer story from Muhammad al-Hajj, in pitch-perfect translation by Yasmine Zohdi.
Wadih Saadeh Wins Argana Prize: 10 Celebratory Poems
The judges of this year’s Argana Prize cited Saadeh’s unique achievements and contribution to “bringing about a change in the path of the Arab prose poem.”