What we've published this year.
What we've published this year.
Deepest affection for all of you.
Published in @arablit.bsky.social’s series “Grief in Letters” in memory of surgeon Dr Adnan al-Bursh, who was abducted by the IDF 2 years ago, before Israel brutally murdered him arablit.org/dear-dr-adna...
Deepest affection for all of you.
Hamas’s General Political Bureau is set to elect a new head within days or in the first 10 days of January, according to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The two leading contenders are Khalil al-Hayya, the head of Hamas in Gaza and a chief negotiator in...
Hamas’s General Political Bureau is set to elect a new head within days or in the first 10 days of January, according to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The two leading contenders are Khalil al-Hayya, the head of Hamas in Gaza and a chief negotiator in...
And pulling back, like a leaf from a tree. And that I'll love nothing,
And vanish like a nameless stone.
-wrote the one who felt the vise tightening around him, ready to crush him.
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And pulling back, like a leaf from a tree. And that I'll love nothing,
And vanish like a nameless stone.
-wrote the one who felt the vise tightening around him, ready to crush him.
#KhouryGhata25 #TheLastDaysOfMandelstam
lie between us now- disconnected- crucified_then dissected.
and they don't know--it unites us.
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lie between us now- disconnected- crucified_then dissected.
and they don't know--it unites us.
#KhouryGhata25 #TheLastDaysOfMandelstam
“Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History”
“Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History”
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
"Under siege, time is stolen piece by piece, and language shrinks to match the narrow space it is allowed. People abandon long sentences because every additional word must justify the power it consumes, the battery it drains, the risk it takes in that particular…
"Under siege, time is stolen piece by piece, and language shrinks to match the narrow space it is allowed. People abandon long sentences because every additional word must justify the power it consumes, the battery it drains, the risk it takes in that particular…
"Even language began to fade. The family forgot the words for their old routines and couldn’t replace them with new ones fast enough."
arablit.org/2025/12/03/s...
"Even language began to fade. The family forgot the words for their old routines and couldn’t replace them with new ones fast enough."
arablit.org/2025/12/03/s...
From the very first lines of her introduction, editor Basma Ghalayani thrusts us right into a hurried, pulsing Gaza. A passerby asks a Gazan sprinting down the street if something has happened. He answers, “no, but it might.”
From the very first lines of her introduction, editor Basma Ghalayani thrusts us right into a hurried, pulsing Gaza. A passerby asks a Gazan sprinting down the street if something has happened. He answers, “no, but it might.”
This December 15, Dar Arab is set to publish Belal Fadl’s The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Shari The Adulterer, brought to English by first-time translator Osama Hammad. This darkly humorous coming-of-age is set in a…
This December 15, Dar Arab is set to publish Belal Fadl’s The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Shari The Adulterer, brought to English by first-time translator Osama Hammad. This darkly humorous coming-of-age is set in a…
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You know you're just blaming the victim. You' re a romantic at heart.
You want writers to be rebels, revolutionaries, you want them to break the machine or be broken.
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You know you're just blaming the victim. You' re a romantic at heart.
You want writers to be rebels, revolutionaries, you want them to break the machine or be broken.
#DeWittGridneff25 #YourNameHere
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month.
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”