I’m not tremendously keen on The Fetishists as a title for Ibrahim al-Koni’s epic al-Majus, finally out in translation by William Hutchins: You can read an excerpt of Hutchins’ ……Read More
ArabLit’s editor M Lynx Qualey recently wrote a short piece on “Matloub,” a new library project organized by Librarians and Archivists for Palestine (LAP): The article ……Read More
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced their roster of 2019 winners in six categories: The “literature” award went to the globally acclaimed Moroccan ……Read More
The relatively new “Short Story Project” has already published several translations from Arabic, including works by Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, and Alaa Hlehel: Syrian Kurdish novelist ……Read More
The towering, generation-defining Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was born on this day in al-Birwa. To commemorate his entrance into our world on a March ……Read More
Our third list of 10 for public libraries is from Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg — Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University — is also ……Read More
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