Books

There are books that tear its readers open and leave us bleeding, such as Mustafa Khalifa’s The Shell (القوقعة), translated by Paul Starkey. But there are ……Read More

We close Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) with a poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, born in Lebanon in 1937: A translation of Khoury-Ghata’s The Last Days ……Read More

Translations and a tribute to a young Sudanese poet who drowned, last week, in the Mediterranean Sea: By Adil Babikir A young Sudanese poet’s prediction ……Read More

There is very little Arabic poetry by women translated to English; for Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we offer a brief look at ten poets. ……Read More

Last Friday, organizers announced the recipient of the 2021 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship: The 2021 fellowship — jointly run by St Aidan’s College of the ……Read More

This story — shortlisted for the 2018 ArabLit Story Prize — appeared in the inaugural ArabLit Quarterly in the fall of 2018: By Rasha Abbas Translated by Fatima ……Read More