Join PEN America’s 3rd installment of their Women in Translation Reading Series 2022, featuring: Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy (trans.) and Rema Hmoud (Arabic) Caroline Wilcox Reul (trans.) and Andra Schwarz (German) Ali Kinsella & Dzvinia Orlowsky (trans.) and Halyna Kruk (Ukrainian) Arunava Sinha (trans.) and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Bengali) Ellen Vayner &Continue Reading
This story, from Najwa Binshatwan’s acclaimed 2019 collection, An Ongoing Coincidence, won the ArabLit Story Prize that same year in Sawad Hussain’s translation. We re-run it this year as part of Women in Translation Month.Continue Reading
The 2018 book, al-Maqtari said in an interview with al-Madaniya, was an attempt to “resist death through writing”; she added: “It was a simple attempt to document the narrative of the war and its dark memory based on those affected by it. It contains the memories of victims, whose suffering the warring parties insist on deepening and exploiting, and shows how all of the parties in the conflict, in the end, are murderers.”Continue Reading
ArabLit Staff This week, we continue our Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) Wednesday series of “9 Stories” lists. In 2021, we featured short fiction by Sudanese and South Sudanese women, by Algerian women, by Egyptian women, and by Syrian women, all in translation. This year, we added nine-story collections of work by Palestinian and Lebanese women writers, also inContinue Reading
“I have discarded days in the wastebasket to make room for barrenness, and I seriously considered setting them on fire, to do my part in making the world a lighter place.”Continue Reading
In this ad hoc anthology, we bring together an oral tale that’s been put to paper; classic stories by Emily Nasrallah and Layla Baalbaki; works by emerging writers like Batoul Fahs; and a graphic story by Lena Merhej. Continue Reading
These three translations of Asmaa Azaizeh’s “Dragonflies” appeared in the first issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which came out in the fall of 2018.Continue Reading
Both novels, as the postscript on Y’alla notes, deal with themes of identity and alienation.Continue Reading
#WiTMonth lists are necessarily idiosyncratic, reflecting not only the tastes and knowledge of the list-makers, but also what’s available in translation. In this case, our lists also reflect what’s accessible online. Continue Reading
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