* Bushra Khalfan is an Omani short story writer and novelist, born in 1969. What does it mean for your specifically? How much has the literary scene changed in the past few years and what do you hope for it? What does your writing process look like and what can you recommend to young writers
Sunday Submissions: Ibn ‘Arabi Translation Prize
It is expected that submissions will be in both Word and PDF formats and will be between 5000 and 8000 words (notes included).The winner will be awarded a cash prize of 3000 USD, and their translation will be published in the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society (JMIAS), a leading peer-reviewed academic journal now
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Lit & Found: An Excerpt from Hawra Nadawi’s ‘Qismet’
It was the only book by a woman writer longlisted for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. A chapter of Under the Copenhagen Sky appears in Banipal issue 44 in Robin Moger’s translation. They said they could tell she was not in her right mind when they saw her stand at the river’s edge
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#WiTMonth Conversations: Karima Ahdad on ‘Cactus Girls’
There isn’t any place for such discriminatory laws in the 21st century. It was my mother calling to tell me my father had died.” KVV: The critics love your work; it’s been reviewed in dozens of magazines and newspapers in Morocco and you’ve spoken about Cactus Girls at literary festivals in Europe. KVV: Is there a
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9 Short Stories by Palestinian Women, in Translation
In this case, our lists also reflect what’s accessible online. There are a handful of full-length short-story collections by Palestinian women writers in English translation; Comma Press brought out Nayrouz Qarmout’s The Sea Cloak, which was translated by Perween Richards (with Charis Bredon, who translated the title story), and later this year, a collection of
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New Poetry: Three Poems by Rana al-Tonsi
Translated by Sara Elkamel Final Barrenness Sometimes The sky doesn’t draw its drapes As the first long, desolate night descends We are third-class patients Or, the less vulnerable We are the victims of wisdom The moment the window opens And the air pushes its way through Without appropriate exhalation We know now What the years
Listen: Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘The Gap’
Will Forrester and Sarah Cleave, alongside work by Hassan Blasim, Zahra El-Hasnaui, Kyung-Sook Shin, Geetanjali Shree, Juan Pablo Villalobos, and other celebrated authors. Listen: Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘The Gap’ August 8, 2022August 3, 2022 by mlynxqualey By ArabLit Staff In celebration of Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), Comma Press has shared author Maya Abu al-Hayyat
Sunday Submissions: Kohl Journal
Simultaneous submissions are not accepted; find the call and detailed submission guidelines on Kohl’s website. As economic policies deplete our ecosystems, as militarization and imperial expansion are more concerned with oil, power, and control than with our livelihood, we would like to reflect on the urgency to organize and resist so we might break free.
Projects by Hassan Blasim, Lamia Ziadé, and the ‘Egypt + 100’ Collection Win PEN Translates Awards
They include Hassan Blasim’s The Clock and the Guest, to be translated by Jonathan Wright, Lamia Ziadé’s My Very Great Arab Melancholy, to be translated by Emma Ramadan, and the Egypt + 100 collection from Comma Press, set to include work by Mansoura Ez Eldin, Ahmed El-Fakhrany, and other acclaimed Egyptian authors. Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora,
Lit & Found: Three Poems by Taghrid Abdelal
Read all three poems at Asymptote. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Lit & Found: Three Poems by Taghrid Abdelal August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 by mlynxqualey In their latest issue, Asymptote brought out three poems by Palestinian artist and writer Taghrid Abdelal, translated by Fady Joudah. The first poem, “Dear Sky,” opens: I will look at
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#WiTMonth Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold’
Khaled Mattawa Sur les traces d’Enayat Zayyat, tr. Richard Jaquemond Geografia alternativa, tr. They are in English translations that, Creswell writes in his introduction, were worked and re-worked over many smoky Skype calls, until their tense, storytelling musicality finally evoked the feeling of entering Mersal’s world in Arabic. Ossorio Menéndez and Laura Salguero Esteban Share
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‘If There is a New Feeling, There Must Be a New Word’: A Talk with Nora Amin
But now it is published. I deal with them in this not-so-conscious process of writing. I’m very happy if the feeling gets through. You don’t have the usual book design format. Reine Chahine: How would you describe your style? At the very end, at the very last line of the text, it is the first
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Coming in August: Historical Fiction from Egypt and Libya & an Iraqi Memoir
In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice.” Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Nancy Roberts (Hoopoe) From the publisher: “The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan Ibn Numan. William Hutchins (Amazon Crossing)
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Women in Translation Month: 10 New Books for 2022
Sawad Hussain (Dedalus Books) The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani, tr. M Lynx Qualey (University of Texas Press) Bitter Orange Tree, by Jokha al-Harthi, tr. The first, spearheaded by the Three Percent blog, highlights how few literary works in the United States are translations. Of the women whose works appeared or will appear in English translation in 2022, most
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Sunday Submissions: Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology
Find out more about the anthology and the detailed submission guidelines here. Submissions of translations and of works incorporating multiple languages are explicitely encouraged. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022. The editors suggest as potential threads of exploration: Palestinian futurity, hybrid and multi-lingual forms, experimental poetics, ecopoems, speculative poetics, permission to narrate/counter-narrate, Palestinian body,
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Lit & Found: Sawad Hussain on Resources for Editing Translations
Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Lit & Found: Sawad Hussain on Resources for Editing Translations July 29, 2022July 28, 2022 by Leonie Rau For the last post of her residency at the British Centre for Literary Translation, Arabic-English translator Sawad Hussain shares some of the resources she uses when editing translations. In her post, she discusses
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Habib Tengour: “I’m Not Seeking Sophistication or Charm, but the Correct Expression, the Effective Image, the Sounds and the Appropriate Rhythm”
What is the relationship between playfulness and consolation? As for young publishers, I must pay tribute to Karim Chikh and his wife Samia Zennadi of APIC editions who didn’t hesitate to support and promote the collection that I offered them, “Poèmes du monde”. A consolatio is a literary genre. “Acrostics are good” in the opening
Publisher Mahmoud Muna on the Launch of an Arabic Edition of Granta Magazine: “We Want to Encourage New and Bold Creative Writing from the Region”
We hope that by presenting writing that represents new creative output, formats, themes and topics, related to the contemporary reader, this will encourage the process of recruiting more readers of modern Arabic literature and to contribute to the intellectual debates around important political and social issues. We have also provided the option to purchase a
Sunday Submissions: ‘Wasafiri’ Looks For Editors at Large
They are currently interested in applications from people based in Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, or Yemen. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Sunday Submissions: ‘Wasafiri’ Looks For Editors at Large July 24, 2022July 22, 2022 by Leonie Rau
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Mona Kareem on Translation: ‘Embrace Your Invisibility As a Superpower’
In her talk, she balances the discussion of craft with a discussion of the politics of translation, including issues around the terminologies related to translation and the intertwined art and labor of literary translation. I think visibility is a capitalist logic, as well. “I am really concerned that translators will buy into this visibility trap.
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