Books

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