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Iraq + 100 Contributor Anoud on Writing Anger, Violence, and Comedy
As of this week, the short-story collection Iraq + 100 is available as an ebook. Soon, it becomes available in print as well: The PEN-supported collection features ……Read More
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Ghassan Zaqtan’s ‘Describing the Past’: Instead of Dream-logic, There Is Memory-logic
This review appears in full in Qantara: Freshly translated by Samuel Wilder, Describing the Past could be called a semi-autobiographical novella, or a meditation on the ……Read More
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Translating the Greeks into Arabic by Defending the ‘Love of Wisdom’
Late last month, Ali Benmakhlouf came to New York University to discuss “Reading Arabic Medieval Philosophy: a Contemporary Perspective”: By Danny Dubbaneh Photo by Danny Dubbaneh. ……Read More
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Good Morning, Ladbrokes: Nobel Betting Beyond Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi
This week, ArabLit is officially on #teamngugi. Yet it does seem strange that the betting agency Ladbrokes insists, year after year, that the two representatives of Arabic literature ……Read More
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Blind Spots: A Millennium of Arabic in Translation
This Friday in London, Anton Shammas gives the inaugural annual lecture of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation: To mark the 10th ……Read More
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Kareem James Abu-Zeid on Why It’s Important To Get the ‘I’ Out of the Way When Translating
Words Without Borders has been running a “Translator Relay” that features an interview with a different translator each month. The month’s translator chooses the next ……Read More