Sarah Enany is a Banipal Prize-winning literary translator (for her translation of Rasha Adly’s The Girl with Braided Hair) and a professor in the English Department of Cairo University. She
https://arablit.org/2024/05/09/sarah-enany-on-living-and-making-a-living-as-a-translator-in-egypt/
As this is a novelette, some readers may prefer to read on a tablet, in PDF or epub form. It’s available free on the ArabLit store. Holy Wednesday By Mahmoud
https://arablit.org/2024/05/08/new-short-fiction-holy-wednesday/
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By Graham Liddell Words fail spectacularly in the shadow of 2,000 pound bombs. Palestinian author Anton Shammas recently described his own incapacity to respond in writing to the slaughter and
https://arablit.org/2024/05/07/what-can-palestinian-literature-tell-us-about-amputations-in-gaza/
Tugrul Mende, in conversation with Fadi Azzam and Ghada Alatrash In April, Interlink Books published Fadi Azzam’s Huddud’s House—which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabi...
https://arablit.org/2024/05/06/today-we-need-to-write-at-least-a-thousand-syrian-novels/
The group Passages Through Genocide (gazapassages.com) collects, translates and publishes texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza, to lift up their words. You can read mor...
https://arablit.org/2024/05/03/watch-four-palestinian-writers-on-gaza/
Last week, we shared an excerpt from Iraqi author Duna Ghali’s acclaimed novel Orbits of Lonelinessin maia tabet’s translation. This week, Duna talks with us about the differing receptions of...
This list may not be complete; if you have something to add, please put it in the comments or email us at info@arablit.org. At Rest in the Cherry Orchard, by
When the War Parts By Heba Al-Agha Translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso I won’t be the same might become a closet or a bed a gas canister, a rug a
https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/
APRIL 28, 2024 — Judges today announced the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Basim Khandaqji’s قناع بلون السماء (A Mask, the Color of the Sky). The an...