Books

Zaynab Fawwaz (1850?-1914) was a Lebanese poet, novelist, and historian of famous women: Fawwaz is unusual among nineteenth-century women authors in that she was born ……Read More

Hend Jaʿfar is a writer and academic from Ismailiyya who works in the manuscripts department at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Her story, “The Soul at Rest,” ……Read More

Tomorrow — August 13, 2019 — is publication day for Dominique Eddé’s Edward Said: His Thoughts as a Novel, tr. Trista Selous and Ros Schwartz: ……Read More

Areej Gamal has a short story, “An Alternative Guide to Getting Lost,” tr. Yasmine Seale, in the recently published Book of Cairo. Her first collection of ……Read More

It’s acclaimed Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal who originally recommended Safinaz Kazem (b. 1937) to ArabLit readers: Indeed, Mersal has redirected our gaze to work ……Read More

Among those who participated in ArabLit’s 2018 series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation Shadi Rohana, who talked about his experience with two classes, “Literatura ……Read More

Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance was published last month in Sinan Antoon’s English translation. At the heart of the novel is the sudden and unexplained disappearance ……Read More

The “In/for Translation” series — set to run Tuesdays in August — focuses on work by women that we recommend either in or for English ……Read More

It was Bulaq episode 33 when Ursula Lindsey and ArabLit editor M. Lynx Qualey discussed the collection of essays Our Women on the Ground, ed. Zahra Hankir. Tomorrow ……Read More

On Sundays during Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we will feature a look at classics — in translation, or not — by Arab women writers. ……Read More

As part of the 2019 Shubbak Festival in London, Lebanese theatre maker Hanane Hajj Ali performed her one-woman show, Jogging, at Notting Hill’s Gate Theatre. ……Read More

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine announced last week that they are co-sponsoring “the first major festival dedicated to the celebration and support of Palestinian literature ……Read More

The summer issue of Modern Poetry in Translation includes work by ten poets from the Maghreb, with poems translated from the standard Arabic, darija, and Tamazight: The ……Read More

The poetry of Kamal Al-Jizouli — who is also a human rights lawyer, arrested in January of this year, and part of a team who ……Read More

London-based novelist and video artist Guy Gunaratne on imprisoned Egyptian poet and lyricist Galal El-Behairy: By Guy Gunaratne  It feels a little strange to write ……Read More