Books
In/for Translation: 5 Arab Women Playwrights
The “In/for Translation” series — set to run Tuesdays in August — focuses on work by women that we recommend either in or for English ……Read More
Lifestyle
Daily Life
There’s No Other Option: We Need to Vote Out Gun-Happy Politicians
Within the span of 13 hours over the weekend, 20 people were massacred in El Paso, TX and nine murdered in Dayton, OH, with dozens ……Read More
Books
Launching Tomorrow: ‘Our Women on the Ground’
It was Bulaq episode 33 when Ursula Lindsey and ArabLit editor M. Lynx Qualey discussed the collection of essays Our Women on the Ground, ed. Zahra Hankir. Tomorrow ……Read More
Books
Classics, Revisited: Enayat al-Zayyat’s ‘Love and Silence’
On Sundays during Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we will feature a look at classics — in translation, or not — by Arab women writers. ……Read More
Books
On Hanane Hajj Ali’s ‘Jogging’: Sex, Prime Ministers, and Running in Circles
As part of the 2019 Shubbak Festival in London, Lebanese theatre maker Hanane Hajj Ali performed her one-woman show, Jogging, at Notting Hill’s Gate Theatre. ……Read More
Fashion
A Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition Will (Maybe, Probably) Happen At The Met
Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, is gearing up for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York's future ……Read More