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.”
Wadih Saadeh
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.”