Translate This! Samar Yazbek’s ’19 Women’
“We had no experience of dealing with something like this. The smell from the hospital was like the stench of rotten eggs. We gave people the standard facemasks but it did no good.”
#WITMonth
Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
For #WITMonth, ten short stories by women, translated from Arabic to English, by writers from Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Tammy’ & Translated Chapbooks
“Collaborations, hybrids, and translations are welcome.”
Lit & Film: Hadiya Hussein’s ‘Man in a Cup’
The last, the short-short “A Man in a Cup,” is an adapation of a short story by Iraqi writer Hadiya Hussein of the same name. If you won’t be in London, you can watch it online.
Friday Finds: ‘How to Find Your Mother In Her Portrait’
“When my mother died in the mid-seventies, her only extant portrait took on a greater significance.”
Reclaiming the Women of Arabic Popular Epics
“I suspected that, though Lyons’ translations would point me to relevant episodes, I could not trust his framing of the characters’ actions. And indeed, I found that he frequently left out important details with a bearing on gender roles.”
9 in 2018: Best of New Translated Arabic Lit by Women
As Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) opens, we list nine of the best women’s works translated from Arabic to English and published in 2018.