Books

The news came late to Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun that her short-story collection, Thirteen Months of Sunrise, had been published in English translation. The book ……Read More

Iman Yehia’s The Mexican Wife is a whodunit that looks for the “truth” of Yusuf Idris’s life story while simultaneously inventing its own: By Gretchen McCullough James Frey’s ……Read More

The University of Bonn has posted eight years of archives of the humor magazine al-Fukaha, published in Egypt by Dar al-Hilal: "Al-Fukaha" which means "humour" or "joke" ……Read More

As Omar Qaqish wrote in a 2014 paper, James Joyce’s literary works have been translated prolifically into Arabic: There are a number of published translations ……Read More

The first ever Penguin Classic, E. V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey, was published in 1946. Since then, the imprint has brought out more than ……Read More

On Monday, the Palestine Book Awards announced their 2019 shortlist: The awards, now in their eighth year, received 43 submissions and chose a shortlist of ……Read More

Last month, Jordanian poet, journalist, and novelist Amjad Nasser published a small collection of poems online about coming to terms with the end of his life ……Read More

Over at Poetry International, Nisrine Mbarki has written up a short introduction to Mona Kareem’s poetry, “captivating and visual miniatures of day-to-day situations,” and Robin ……Read More

Al-Sayyid Negm, author of the 2018 environmental novel The Noise of Frogs, talks with Layla Azmi Goushey about writing what he sees as “resistance literature” and ……Read More

For Pride month, five queer-focused fictions — by queer authors and/or about queer characters — translated from Arabic that you can read online: 1) An ……Read More

Earlier this week, Netflix announced its first Egyptian show, an adaptation of the “Paranormal” series by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962-2018): A caricature ……Read More

Mohammad Ibrahim Nawaya’s “To Be Led from Behind,” in Robin Moger’s translation, appears in Issue 17 of The Common, and also on their website: Issue 17 has ……Read More

Al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī al-Tanūkhī (939–994) was a judge, collector of stories, and litterateur who was born in Basra and died in Baghdad. Raised in a ……Read More

Novelist and physics professor Amr Shaarawi recently spoke with translator, educator, and scholar Yasmine Motawy about his creative process: By Yasmine Motawy Amr Shaarawi is a professor ……Read More

The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation is accepting entries for this year’s contest through July 12, 2019: The prize — open to UK residents ……Read More