Books

Shahla Ujayli’s popular and acclaimed novel A Sky So Close to Us recently appeared in Michelle Hartman’s English translation. Hartman, who has translated nine books, also ……Read More

Although Haji Jaber’s Black Foam did not advance to the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist this week, we still hope to soon find his books ……Read More

There are only a handful of Mauritanian novels in English: one translation from French and the few novels written and self-published by Mohamed Bouya Bamba: By ……Read More

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction revealed the prize’s 2019 shortlist today at the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem. Judges who were unable to travel to ……Read More

ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey is working on a profile of Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli, whose novel Summer with the Enemy was shortlisted yesterday for the International Prize ……Read More

According to news reports, outspoken Iraqi novelist Alaa Mashzoub was fired on by gunmen in front of his Karbala home on Saturday. He was struck ……Read More