Books

Our third list of 10 for public libraries — thankfully poetry-heavy — comes from acclaimed translator and academic Hosam Aboul-Ela: For these lists-of-ten, ArabLit is ……Read More

Over at The Center for the Art of Translation’s Two Lines journal, Mona Kareem has translated Ra’ad Abdul Qadir’s (1953-2003) “A Song for the Lightning Bird“: Iraqi ……Read More

“A Room of Sabry’s Own” is from Samar Nour’s collection In the House of the Vampire, which won a Sawiris prize in 2017: By Samar ……Read More

It’s World Poetry Day, which this year is also Nowruz, Holi, Purim, Nizar Qabbani’s birthday, and (apparently) the day when Twitter was founded. Last year, we ……Read More

On the evening of Monday, March 18, just after 5 p.m., some ten masked, armed men attacked Gazan novelist Atef Abu Saif and his neighbor ……Read More

Our third list of 10 for public libraries — thankfully poetry-heavy — comes from celebrated poet-translator Marilyn Hacker: For these lists-of-ten, ArabLit is interviewing scholars, ……Read More