EST, 2 p.m. in Islamic Studies from the American University of Beirut, with a focus on the wonderful, the strange, and the miraculous. Despite being Lebanese, Takieddine spent a large portion of his life between the Philippines, Mexico, and Columbia, which, in part, lends this distinct flavor to his style. If any contemporary authors or
Winner of 2021 ArabLit Story Prize Goes to ‘Fresh, Disquieting Translation’ of ‘Compelling and Haunting Tale’
Winner of 2021 ArabLit Story Prize Goes to ‘Fresh, Disquieting Translation’ of ‘Compelling and Haunting Tale’ We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize are — jointly — Mustafa Taj Alden Almosa, Maisaa Tanjour, & Alice Holttum, for Tanjour and Holttum’s co-translation of Almosa’s “How Kind They Are”: This
Mustafa Taj Alden Almosa’s ‘How Kind They Are,’ Tr. Maissa Tanjour & Alice Holttum
It was my uncle’s favorite word, what he always called me when we played cards with our friends. I always let it grow long, only trimming it very occasionally. Michel Kilo is a Syrian dissident writer and human rights activist. * Read the Arabic original, كم هم لطفاء: كم-هم-لطفاءDownload I’m happily at your service.” “Can
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2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Burnaby Hawkes on the Translingual Experience
2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Burnaby Hawkes on the Translingual Experience Burnaby Hawkes’s translation of Ahmed Magdy Hammam’s “The Hemingway Man” (خدعة هيمنجواي) was shortlisted for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize. UAE. I became aware of the merits and limitations of each language. Does this change your perspective as a translator, do you think?
2021 ArabLit Story Prize Shortlisted Translators Maissa Tanjour and Alice Holttum: On the Value of Co-translations
Our aim is to increase the visibility of Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa and his literary work, which may be less well known in the UK, and bring it to a wider audience, most crucially when these stories relate to lived experiences. What does co-translating bring to the project that you might not achieve alone? MT:
2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Katherine Van de Vate on Great Storytelling
(Is it different from what draws you as a reader?) KVV: I like short stories because they pack a punch or deliver a message with a minimum of words and a maximum of effect. There are over 400 million speakers of Arabic in the world, so we are clearly missing the opportunity to read a lot
2021 ArabLit Story Prize: Shortlisted Translator Katharine Halls on Dismantling and Rebuilding Stories
And in fact I do think of myself as a highly skilled technician. I want to come at the text in the right direction. Do you generally talk with a (living) author about a project?KH: This text is so short that not much came up by way of questions. What pleasures and joys does it
Editing and Translating al-Hamadhānī, Who’s Always ‘Just One or Two Steps Ahead of You’
This is the very hermeneutic game of Hamadhānī which he is so brilliant at abstracting from his world. That is a straight up substitution. What sort of take away do you have on the status of turath (literary heritage) in the Emirates? MP: So many students feel a lack or shame, that they do not know their
Sunday Submissions: Global Africa Translation Fellowship & Shakomako.net
Find the call here on Twitter and read more about the magazine at their website. Not because we don’t know where we came from, but because we always question where we belong. If you write, draw, make sound, moving image or create content in any shape or form, we would love to hear from you.
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The Mosaic Rooms Names New Writer-in-residence: Gazan Author Nayrouz Qarmout
She will participate in events in the exhibition’s ‘living room’ space which aims to reflect refugee camp culture, and be a place for solidarities and social connection. The 14 stories in The Sea Cloak — one of which also appeared in The Book of Gaza, ed. The Mosaic Rooms Names
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Two Maghrebi Poetry Collections, ‘Impostures’ Shortlisted for 2021 National Translation Awards
This year’s judges for poetry are Sinan Antoon, Layla Benitez-James, and Sibelan Forrester. On the six-book prose shortlist is Michael Cooperson’s translation of al-Ḥarīrī’s maqamat, titled Impostures. You can find the complete shortlists at the ALTA website. The winners will be announced at ALTA’s annual conference, set to be held virtually
Salma Harland Selected for 2022 Emerging Translator Mentorship
The Arabic mentee, Salma Harland ,is an Egyptian-born, UK-based literary translator who works between Arabics and English. His known works include Adab an-Nadim (The Necessary Qualities for a Boon Companion), Al-Masa’id wa ’l-Matarid (Snares and Game), a collection of Epistles, and a diwan of poems. 360 (A.D. In a chapter of the same book titled
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Sunday Submissions: Kohl Journal Special Dossier
If you are interested in contributing, please submit your piece to submit@kohljournal.press by October 10, 2021. The dossier will be published in November 2021. We attempt to break free by trying to find different answers and alternative readings that would resist economic collapse, pandemics, climate change. Find the call and detailed submission guidelines on Kohl’s
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Al-Bayati: ‘When I Met al-Sayyab in 1947’
He did not even respond to al-Sayyab when he made his harsh and intentional remarks in most of its paragraphs, when he was answering the questions of Khudair al-Wali, which he included in his book Opinions on Poetry and Story (1956). What protected me from oppression in those years was the rise of the national
AUC Press, AMCA, Barjeel Announce New Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Manuscript Award
More at the AUC Press website. AUC Press, AMCA, Barjeel Announce New Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Manuscript Award Last week, the AUC Press, the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA), and the Barjeel Art Foundation announced a new manuscript award: Jabra’s “Self Portrait,” 1946 The award, named for
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Samar Yazbek, Translator Leri Price Shortlisted for National Book Award for ‘Planet of Clay’
The judges for the category this year are Stephen Snyder, Jessie Chaffee, Sergio de la Pava, Madhu H. Samar Yazbek, Translator Leri Price Shortlisted for National Book Award for ‘Planet of Clay’ Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have made the five-book shortlist of the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature”
Sawad Hussain’s ‘Translating Humor in Contemporary Arabic Literature’
In this story, a modern-day Cinderella feels compelled to beat up various unlikeable people she encounters, using her elegant slipper. Find all the information on the class and how to register here and follow Sawad on Twitter @sawadhussain to catch any updates. Sawad then very generously shared her knowledge in this workshop, aiming to familiarize
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‘She Stretched Out Her Hand’: A Translator’s Tribute to Mourid Barghouti
I could see the movements of the shoulders, the knees, and the feet. The poems of this collection are something like tributes: to his wife Radwa Ashour, to his family, to Mahmoud Darwish, and even to trees. And I was enchanted by how he portrayed it, how he built a whole story, and how he
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Friday Finds: ‘A Contemporary Novel’ by Maya Abu al-Hayat & Five More
/ (Did anyone see her?).” Read the whole poem at The Baffler. It tells us that, in the contemporary novel, Finding out who the killer is / is not the point of the murder/ in the opening scene.” Later on, with her characteristic sympathy and wit: “The female protagonist visits him in the mornings,
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Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards
Part playtext, part novel, part political essay, part poem, this insurrection of a book takes as its starting point the devastating 1960 earthquake that struck the Moroccan city. You can hear more about it in a special “Aftershocks” episode of Bulaq. The winning translators will receive a $2,500 cash prize each. And Algerian poet Samira Negrouche’s
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