Books

Tamil translator Gouthama Siddarthan has curated a small selection of poems by Abdel Wahab Yousif, a young Sudanese poet who drowned, in August, in the ……Read More

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize are Hadiya Hussein and Shakir Mustafa for “Tunnels”: This year’s judges decided, ……Read More

The RAYA Agency for Arabic Literature, in addition to announcing four new titles to its list, shared number of new rights deals for Arabic literature ……Read More

These two short-short stories appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, the CATS issue, which is available digitally (Gumroad, Exact Editions) or in print (in ……Read More

“I would like to say” was published in Safaa Fathy’s PEN-longlisted collection Revolution Goes Through Walls, co-translated by the author and Pierre Joris. It appears here with ……Read More

Today — Thursday, October 1, 2020 — at 4 p.m. EDT, 9 p.m. BST, and 10 p.m. Cairo, Norbert Hirschhorn and Fouad M. Fouad will ……Read More

It was fifty years ago — on September 28, 1970 — that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser died of a heart attack in Cairo. He was ……Read More

In her study, “The Arabic Adolescent Novel: Tracing Constructions of Adolescence within Texts and in the Discourses of Authors, Publishers and Readers,” Susanne Abou Ghaida looks at how ……Read More

Tunisian writer and philosopher Kamel Zoghbani (1965-2020) died on Monday, September 14, after a sudden heart attack. He was 55: Writer and activist Kamel Zoghbani was ……Read More

Islam Nawwar is a poet and physician in Cairo: Excerpt from “Don’t Say That My Son Is Walking in Heaven” By Islam Nawwar Translated by Phoebe ……Read More

There are books that tear its readers open and leave us bleeding, such as Mustafa Khalifa’s The Shell (القوقعة), translated by Paul Starkey. But there are ……Read More

We close Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) with a poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, born in Lebanon in 1937: A translation of Khoury-Ghata’s The Last Days ……Read More

Translations and a tribute to a young Sudanese poet who drowned, last week, in the Mediterranean Sea: By Adil Babikir A young Sudanese poet’s prediction ……Read More

There is very little Arabic poetry by women translated to English; for Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we offer a brief look at ten poets. ……Read More

Last Friday, organizers announced the recipient of the 2021 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship: The 2021 fellowship — jointly run by St Aidan’s College of the ……Read More