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For International Women’s Day: 5 Poets You Should Know in English Translation
For International Women’s Day, ArabLit contributor Norah Alkharashi has put together a list of Arabophone women poets who may be acclaimed in Arabic, but are little-known in English: By Norah...
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Best-selling Kuwaiti Author Bothayna al-Essa on the Anti-Consumerist Attitude...
Best-selling Kuwaiti author Bothayna al-Essa was recently part of this year’s Emirates LitFest as well as the AUK Biennial LitFest: In the second installment of a special feature on the journeys of...
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Saturday Summer Re-Runs: Salwa Bakr on ‘Women and Arabic Literature’
In the the 1980s, novelist Salwa Bakr said, “Every day you would open the window and find a female author writing a new book.” This piece initially ran in November 2012 and is part of our lead-up to...
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For ‘Women in Translation’ Month, 8 New or Forthcoming Books by Arab Women
August is Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth). A look at literature in translation shows that women’s books represent only around 30% of titles published in translation in English. Efforts to shift...
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Saturday Summer Re-runs: On Translating ‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah, Perhaps...
Th. Emil Homerin, editor-translator of the recently-published The Principles of Sufism, has long been interested in the work of ‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah, who is perhaps the most prolific and prominent...
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Saturday Summer Re-Runs: Alexandra Chreiteh on Writing About Menstruation in...
In what sort of language can an author write about something as banal and contested as menstruation? Should a character pee in colloquial Arabic or Modern Standard? In the first part of a two-part...
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