Books

This Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) Wednesday, five selected short stories from five different countries that are re-tellings or inventions of folktale narratives: 1. “Pearls ……Read More

Our first “Women in Translation Month” conversation is between Moroccan novelist Karim Ahdad and translator Katherine Van de Vate, who is working to bring Ahdad’s first novel into ……Read More

This story appears in the Summer 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, the CRIME issue: Arsène Lupin By Sonallah Ibrahim Translated by Emily Drumsta I approached the store ……Read More

The most unexpected submission to the Summer 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly — with its focus on crime — was N.A. Mansour’s suggestion that she mash up two ……Read More

Jordanian author Elias Farkouh died today — Wednesday, July 15 — after an acute heart attack. He was 72: Photo from the author’s Facebook page. ……Read More

The Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA) yesterday published an interview with Brazilian publisher Laura di Pietro, whose new venture, Editora Tabla, is set to release two Arabic books in ……Read More

The most exhilarating aspect to the lyrics of Sudanese band, Lemya Shammat writes, is that they “give voice to the neglected, disadvantaged, and those who ……Read More

Emirati poet and novelist Thani Al-Suwaidi, one of the most prominent Emirati literary artists, died in Cairo on Sunday. He was 54: He left behind ……Read More

Poet, novelist, and documentary filmmaker Ahmed Atallah was born in Qena, in Upper Egypt, and he started out by publishing colloquial poetry. His popular Mariam: A ……Read More

This essay — on the journeys of Syrian poetry — first appeared in Arabic in al-Jumhuriya: By Raed Wahesh Translated by Hazem Shekho Throughout the ……Read More

The Los Angeles Review has published a second excerpt from Nadia Kamel’s Born, also translated by Brady Ryan and Essayed Taha: The first excerpt of Kamel’s Born, a memoir/biography hybrid, appeared ……Read More

Next week, Lindsey Moore will join the PalREAD “Relocating the Map” series of discussions by scholars and authors to talk about “Drones & Clones in Palestine”:  ……Read More

Adel Kamel had three daughters: Mona, Sonia, and Nadia. Mona Farid spoke about her father from her home in Texas in a discussion edited here ……Read More

Waleed Almusharaf sat down to read Adel Kamel’s satiric 1942 novel in 2015. He immediately started to translate it: When did you first read Malim al-Akbar? Was it after ……Read More

Egyptian author Adel Kamel — a lawyer, long-forgotten novelist, and long-time member of the Harafish — was born in Cairo on February 27, 1916: The ……Read More