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The social-realist novel has echoes of Dib’s own childhood, focused on a boy of around ten whose father has died and whose mother struggles to support the family; the bright spot in the novel is a young Communist, Hamid Saraj. The book   was translated by Paul Vangelisti and   published by Green Integer in

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Salah then leaned out with his body and reached out to pull the headscarf off her head, but it escaped his hand and he left her with her hair half bare. His writings appeared in a number of literary periodicals in Cairo. Never mind them, Milad. He shouted at him, and the officer argued that

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­Take part in a meet­ing of artists and pro­fes­sion­als with the aim of net­work­ing or encour­ag­ing links be­tween cul­tur­al, artis­tic and de­vel­op­ment ac­tors through­out the re­gion. Cul­tur­al projects. The applicants must be traveling to: Pre­pare a project. ­Take part in de­bates, con­fer­ences and sem­i­nars. Lit­er­a­ture: trav­el for au­thors’ meet­ings, writ­ing work­shops and po­etry. According to

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Show Notes: Nadia Ghanem regularly covers Algerian and Moroccan literature — particularly crime fiction — for ArabLit. The Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi’s   Inspector Ali   is the hero of his acclaimed   detective novels. Ahmed Mourad’s   Vertigo,   also tr. She has a wonderful crime-lit overview, “The Story of 50 Years of Algerian

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More: Poets & Writers: Ten Questions for Ryad Girod and Chris Clarke. To celebrate the launch, author Ryad Girod and translator Chris Clarke read parallel excerpts. Although set during a single day in the Saudi capital, Mansour’s Eyes   also weaves in the history of the Algerian struggle for independence with life as an Arab

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For me, translation is not synonymous with fame; instead it is a tool to emphasize the necessity of communication between different peoples, leading to more awareness and more understanding of the other. 6 by Elias Farkouh (1948-2020) Yesterday, Jordanian novelist and   publisher Elias Farkouh died of a heart attack at 72: From Farkouh’s Facebook

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The author was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1948, and attended primary and secondary school between Amman and East Jerusalem. Jordanian author Elias Farkouh died today — Wednesday, July 15 — after an acute heart attack. He was 72: An excerpt from   Columns of Foam   appeared in   Banipal 13, translated by Issa

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(It’s good to be unfaithful! New Brazilian Publisher Editora Tabla To Focus on Arabic Titles The Brazil-Arab   News Agency (ANBA) yesterday published an interview with Brazilian publisher   Laura di Pietro, whose new venture,   Editora Tabla, is set to release two Arabic books in Brazilian-Portuguese translation this month: According to ANBA, editorial director

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Nearly all the characters come to the party burdened by their pasts, hoping for a new future, only to find themselves interpellated by the symptoms of injustice from which they suffered. [1] Robyn Creswell’s translation. The protagonist exchanges declarations of love with his brother’s wife but no sooner is love declared than it dissolves in

Continue reading Sonallah Ibrahim’s ’67’: Oppression and Its Unintended Consequences

Then, sitting on a heap of stones, I opened the book I was holding and started to read the poems within, written by the Iraqi poet Adhab al-Rikaby, who was also a guest at the forum. The haiku poem, as al-Rikaby says, is a poem that does not lean on the rhythm of nature only

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If it were in winter time, when the palm trees are pollinated, you would find that a dark cloud had descended over the village. A. But the most recent of his works to appear in translation is a very different work, as it is a nonfictional one. I scrutinized his face as he sat in

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Deadline Coming: Send Submissions to 2020 ArabLit Story Prize Tick tock, it’s time to send in your submissions to the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize: The ArabLit Story Prize is an award for the best short stories, in any genre, newly translated from Arabic into English. Submission materials must include: 1) Cover letter with the name

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The Poetry of Sudanese Band Iged al-Jalad: ‘Offering the Starving a Bite’ The most exhilarating aspect to the lyrics of Sudanese band, Lemya Shammat writes, is that they “give voice to the neglected, disadvantaged, and those who are left behind”: By Lemya Shammat Iged al-Jalad is a widely adored Sudanese band. It provided the band

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From ALQ’s Crime Issue: Meet the Banu Sasan Brad Fox called in from lockdown in Peru to read from — and discuss — his   translation (or recovery? or adaptation?) of Abu Dulaf’s “Song of the Banu Sasan”: He and   ArabLit Quarterly   editor-in-chief M Lynx Qualey discussed the charlatanism (both real and invented)

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Other literary events will include spoken-word performances by Lisa Luxx, a poet and social activist of British Syrian heritage who is the LAAF 2020 Artist-in-residence, as well as a workshop with award-winning Palestinian-American author Ibtisam Barakat, winner of this year’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the “children’s literature” category, and an evening with Arabist Tim

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More importantly, it has connected for me my three literary cultures: the contemporary humanities, pre-modern Arabic adab, and classical Chinese wen. This is the type of transformation that offers entry points into a three-way inter-temporal as well as inter-cultural conversations. Issues of transmission, the movement of stories through space and time? This modernized ideal man-woman

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Al-Suwaidi has said it   was inspired by his hometown’s oral culture and people he knew when growing up in Ras al-Khaima. After it initially became known in Beirut…it spread to Cairo and then to Iraq. Thani Al-Suwaidi   was born in the Ras al-Khaima area of the Emirates in the summer of 1966 and

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ES:   Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea in my head. My old friend Awad Awad gently and wisely advised me to save the dirty stuff for later, so my first idea became episode 39. Emily Selove:   The idea for a Popeye and Curly cartoon strip came

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“A pair cannot be changed once the project has commenced, and it is each pair’s responsibility to ensure that they work well together to produce the project outcomes. “Must be available to participate in the project during the dates specified in the Open Call. “Creative possibilities of digital technologies and collaboration across borders are at

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Literary detective Mohamed Shoair is author of the acclaimed 2018 popular history   Children of the Alley: The Story of the Forbidden Novel,   which follows the story of Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel. A   chapter of Shoair’s book appears online   in Samah Selim’s translation. Show Notes: Adel Kamel’s   long-forgotten, now-remembered  

Continue reading Bulaq 52: ‘Widows, Conmen, and Crimes’