“Haraket Alfadh Al Hadarh Al Arabieyah min Bayan Al Jahedh to Aked iben Abd Rabbeh” (The Movement of Words in the Arab Civilization: From the Statement of Al Jahiz to the Unique Contract of Ibn Abd Rabbeh) by Dr. “Min al-Fajr ila al-Ghuroob maa’ Toyour Ghabat Alkharuwb” (From Dawn to Dusk with the Birds of
Nathalie Handal on Her First Writing Assignment from Mahmoud Darwish, Her New Collection, and the Role of Translation
Both: Wikimedia Commons. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… That can be magical. It is precisely that hope at the core of the poem that is most moving. Allen died a month or so after, in 1997, and it was one of his last interviews—if not the last. And continue to be intrigued by the cosmos he
New Fiction by Ameer Hamad: ‘All That’s Left to Him’
The boy was afraid of his father. Osama Hammad (@osama_alsebaey) is an emerging literary translator. Is there something wrong? When his mother got home, he would show her the places that needed dusting, where someone of his short stature couldn’t reach. He spent more and more time in the solitude of his room. –I
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Sunday Submissions: BCLT Translators In Residence
To apply, you need to send • your CV,• a covering letter explaining why you are interested in becoming a translator-in-residence atthe BCLT, and• a proposal (not more than 300 words) outlining what ideas and activities you would plan topursue during your time as translator-in-residence to bclt@uea.ac.uk by by 23.59 UK time on 28 November
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Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature Announces 2022 Winners
This novel explores how we can use loss to chase our dreams and tell our own stories. She and her mother always dreamed of her attending school, at a time when it was not easy for girls to travel to small schools in isolated villages. The prize in the fifth category, Comic Book, was withheld.
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Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid Win 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize
I translated his work for a poetry festival, I think it was 2009.” Darwish didn’t get a visa in time to attend that San Francisco International Poetry Festival festival — and was reportedly the only poet who had a difficult time getting a visa to attend. Poems here and there. “It started very slowly. Najwan
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Samar Yazbek and Leri Price Make 2022 Warwick Longlist for ‘Planet of Clay’
The complete longlist: Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother, translated from French by Leslie Camhi (Little, Brown Book Group (Virago), 2021) Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) Selva Almada, Brickmakers, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott (Charco Press, 2021) Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, Mon Amour, translated from German by Jo Heinrich
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Sunday Submissions: The Island Prize 2022/23
Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Read all about the prize at publisher Holland House’s website and the full submission guidelines here. To be considered for the prize, writers must send the opening 3 chapters/10,000 words of a finished novel, along with a short synopsis, to submissions@theislandprize.com. Writers must be from any African country to apply. All
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Lit & Found: Odai Alzoubi’s ‘The Butterfly’s Shadow’ in Four Languages
He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and has published several collections of short stories. Would I better understand the world around me? I’m now forty years old and am still confused. How would things be different if I were in a faraway place, birdwatching? Forty years old,
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Egyptian Author Bahaa Taher Dies at 87
Active in left-wing and avant-garde literary circles in the 1960s, Taher was part of the Gallery 68 movement. In a 2010 interview, Taher explained: “You see this place?—with all its faults and problems? He lost his job in radio broadcasting and was prevented from publishing in the mid 1970s in Sadat’s Egypt. There is
Don’t Miss: ‘Translating Palestine’
Don’t Miss: ‘Translating Palestine’ October 18, 2022October 17, 2022 by Leonie Rau ArabLit and Radical Books Collective are co-hosting a two-hour celebration of Palestinian writing: Sawad Hussain, M. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Register for the free livestream here, with the option of adding a donation to support and grow the collective. * The participants: Maya
Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature Announces 2022 Shortlists
Noun), illustrated by Ali Elzeiny and published by Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press; The Story of the Two Sisters: Hana & Shefa, written by ArabLit Quarterly contributor Hadil Ghoneim, illustrated by Ali Elzeiny and published by Dar El Shorouk; and Kingdom of Antekh, written by Manar Hazzaa, illustrated by Basma Hosam and published by Al-Alia
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New Fiction from Sudan: Ahmed Abu Hazim’s ‘Fragments of Obsessions & Suspicions ‘
Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… Some cursed me with rude words, while others sympathized, regretting that I was wasting my youth on this long passage toward madness. * Ahmed Abu Hazim is a Sudanese journalist and short-story writer. I sat facing him, and we looked like two parentheses. An old woman begged me not to do
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New Poetry from Ghassan Al-Jibai: ‘You Call It a Grave, I Call It a Flowerpot’
* Now, I am living another life I live among the hatching chicks And in the seeds of wheat and basil In the jasmine as it climbs the mud houses And knocks on the old wooden windows, calling out: I am the smile of sadness O people Gift of the poor, the deprived, and the
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Lit & Found: Excerpt from ‘The Secret Of The Morisco’
Thrown into prison for nothing more than his own bad luck, Robert befriends a Christianised Moor, Yusuf, who cautiously recounts the story of his family’s flight from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion in 1609 and divulges the existence of lost Arabic manuscripts, setting Robert off on an adventure taking him from Spain to Holland,
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Three Poems by Riyad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein
“Riyad dancing.” From Fadi Azzam’s Journey to the Graves of Three Poets (2016), with permission. She holds a PhD in Educational Research: Languages and Diversity from the Werklund School of Education, the University of Calgary, and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. A flower from my body, every morning I
Sunday Submissions: Two Online Literary Journals
We define the “ancient” in Ancient Exchanges quite broadly. Please submit soon! Find out more at Four Way Review‘s website and use their online submissions manager to send in your translations. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrWhatsAppPinterestTelegramPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading… * Also open for submissions is Ancient Exchanges, an online journal devoted to literary translations of ancient texts: They “welcome
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New Fiction: An Excerpt from Belal Fadl’s ‘Um Mimi’
I wanted to keep the conversation friendly, so I told her that I only had the Quranic tapes my mother had given me, plus one tape of Fairuz’s music and one of Sayed Mekkay. At first, his mother finds him an apartment with a group of strait-laced young men who attend Al Azhar, our protagonist
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Author Mohamed Kheir on Surreal Coincidences and the Mysteries of Translation
In my case, this magic brought me across the ocean to Iowa. But, like all magic, it can suddenly take strange paths if you don’t heed it. When he was still traveling back and forth to Cairo, he had only translated two of my short stories; stories I thought were too short to require personal meetings
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According to the Swedish Academy Archives: Five Arab Writers Who’ve Been Considered for the Nobel
He was nominated by Toufic Fahd, a scholar at the Université de Strasbourg. The Swedish Academy doesn’t open its archives to the public until 50 years after each prize’s announcement. 1987) had passed. However, we do at least have hearsay: Translator Denys Johnson-Davies wrote in his memoir that he was approached by a representative of