This week's list -- of short works by Libyan women writers -- couldn't focus solely on short stories in translation, or even on excerpts of prose. This week, we've also included two poems.
https://arablit.org/2023/08/23/9-short-texts-by-libyan-women-in-translation/
Malak al-Taeb has opened up calls for submissions to her blog 'Libyan Wanderer'.
https://arablit.org/2023/04/23/sunday-submissions-libyan-wanderer/
"With time, I came to the conclusion that bread-baking as a creative act resembles the art of writing in many ways that might not be obvious to the untrained eye. And that the similarities become...
It’s not a jungle, it’s a city, but not any city, it’s the capital. He’s not “Mowgli”—his name is Ihab. As for “Shere Khan,” he’s nothing but an animal. This story takes place...
https://arablit.org/2022/02/28/new-fiction-in-translation-azza-almaghhours-mowgli-and-shere-khan/
"The story suggests that the innocent dead were sacrificed for the vanity of those in power and those who seek it."
https://arablit.org/2019/10/15/winner-of-2019-arablit-story-prize-the-sharp-bend-at-al-bakur/
"Yet if al-Koniʹs shorter 'Bleeding of the Stone' and 'Gold Dust' are small paintings you can hang on a living-room wall, then The Fetishists is a giant multi-room museum piece."
https://arablit.org/2019/03/16/a-giant-multi-room-museum-piece-ibrahim-al-konis-the-fetishists/
"Often, readers tell me I should write about one subject or another, and I don’t like this sort of relationship, where readers approach the writer as though they're a machine or a mythical crea...
https://arablit.org/2018/09/27/najwa-binshatwan-its-time-for-libyan-writers-to-prove-themselves/
"I began thinking about the sanctity of Arabic and the way it is used to justify certain ideologies or concepts which many Libyans don’t agree with. Gaddafi made Arabic Libya’s standard langu...
"This is undoubtedly the most intense literary work I have done in my ten year career as a translator."
This review was meant to be published two years ago, but the magazine that requested it went dark. So here, to accompany our piece on the crowdfunding campaign for the
https://arablit.org/2017/10/28/review-alessandro-spinas-confines-of-the-shadow/