ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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Cover – a floating stone hand holding a small flower garden.

Ordered the spring 2025 edition of @arablit.bsky.social Beautifully done as always – the theme of this issue is grief.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Drama: The Green Line | خطّ التماس by Makram Ayache! 🎉🎉🎉
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I Want a Room, God. Do You Hear Me? "Even writing, even a warm home—I am afraid of losing them at any moment, of becoming homeless again, of searching for a language that resembles me."

I Want a Room, God. Do You Hear Me?

"Even writing, even a warm home—I am afraid of losing them at any moment, of becoming homeless again, of searching for a language that resembles me."

Nile Nightshade Preorder Campaign Thank you so much for preordering Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preo...

For every preorder (or library request) a donation will be made to mutual aid initiatives in Sudan & Gaza; more info here:

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Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (Volume 87) (California Studies in Food and Culture) Amazon.com: Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (Volume 87) (California Studies in Food and Culture): 9780520409132: Gaul, Anny: Books

You can read an excerpt here amzn.to/46OXiEP and get a copy from @ucpress.bsky.social:

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Photo of Nile Nightshade, by Anny Gaul.

Difficult to feel any joy in these times, but this beauty by @annygaul.bsky.social brought it. Coming October 28.

Two Poems from Gaza by Dana Flaifl: Pre-order and Support French publisher Fidel Anthelme X is planning to bring out a bilingual Arabic-French collection by Palestinian poet Dana Flaifl, Tout ce que j’ai c’est l’écriture, avec elle je résiste, translated to the French by Lotfi Nia. The publisher does not have funding for this book, and printing costs are just over €1,000. The book is scheduled for release in January 2026, and the publisher is now offering the book for sale at €10 + €3 shipping (in France), to raise the necessary funds for its publication.

Two Poems from Gaza by Dana Flaifl: Pre-order and Support

French publisher Fidel Anthelme X is planning to bring out a bilingual Arabic-French collection by Palestinian poet Dana Flaifl, Tout ce que j’ai c’est l’écriture, avec elle je résiste, translated to the French by Lotfi Nia. The publisher…

personally going for mid-eminent

The Soldiers Are Far Younger Than the City: Two Poems by Essam Eisa Rajab - Words Without Borders Two searing poems about the cycle of war and suffering by Sudanese poet and journalist Essam Eisa Rajab.

2 poems about the cycle of war and suffering by Sudanese poet and journalist Essam Eisa Rajab. Read “The Soldiers Are Far Younger Than the City” (translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim) here, and listen to Essam Eisa Rajab read them in the original Arabic: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Forthcoming October 2025: Two Novels and ‘Palestine is Everywhere’ 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. If you have more books to add, please let us know.

Forthcoming October 2025: Two Novels and ‘Palestine is Everywhere’

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. If you have more books to add, please…

Since the inception of the Palestine Library Frankfurt, we have been able to assemble an ever growing catalogue of hundreds of books not only on the issue of Palestine, but anticolonial and liberatory struggles worldwide. Visitors will be able to browse a selection of these at the event, and, once we start our lending program, take out books, just as in any public library. We also welcome publishers to send in samples of relevant publications to be exhibited at the liberatory book fair. In addition to this, we have a packed program of workshops, listening sessions, poetry readings, panel discussions and more, on topics such as: international law as neocolonialism (with Lena Salaymeh), the political economy of the Gaza genocide (with Shir Hever), militant forms of publishing, Palestinian song and poetry (with Club Sheikh Imam), and many more. Of great significance to the inception of this year’s fair is also our internationalist commitment. Though of course limited by both our means and the available time, we are looking forward to the interaction between movements and communities the fair will facilitate through the platforming of multiple localities of liberatory struggle.

Coming Next Month (as counterprogramming to the Frankfurt Book Fair): The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair: arablit.org/2025/09/30/c...

Coming Next Month: The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair The second Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair is set to take place October 17-19. The PLBF promises three days of interviews, talks, panels, workshops and readings centering the Palestinian struggle; organizers answered a few questions about this year's fair.

Coming Next Month: The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair

The second Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair is set to take place October 17-19. The PLBF promises three days of interviews, talks, panels, workshops and readings centering the Palestinian struggle; organizers answered a few questions…

Circles of Time artist book Presentation of the artist book (or maybe I should say box set) that resulted from my Visiting Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, October-December 2024.

I've been invited to speak at the Oxford Medieval Manuscripts seminar during the coming term. I get to talk about all the amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts that inspired my artist book Circles of Time 😄

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Classic Short Fiction: Issa Ebeid’s ‘Lady Ihsan’ In this classic short fiction from 1920, Issa Ebeid depicts a twice-divorced Egyptian woman as she examines the reasons society has made a happy, loving marriage impossible.

Classic Short Fiction: Issa Ebeid’s ‘Lady Ihsan’

In this classic short fiction from 1920, Issa Ebeid depicts a twice-divorced Egyptian woman as she examines the reasons society has made a happy, loving marriage impossible.

New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun

In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

Green cover with the outline of the map of Palestine as a pink feathered birds wing.

Two page black and white photo of a beach scene. A boy with a swim hat and robes. In the background a camel in the water.

Revisiting the @arablit.bsky.social Gaza edition. As always beautifully put together.

In the introduction, Mohammed Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Ai-Shaer write "Writing is an opportunity to survive and create meaning... We do not want to forget who we are."

📽️Don't miss this new beautiful video from Gaza about Batool Abu Akleen's life & work, from @palfest.bsky.social.

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Don't know why, but it's particularly readers in Canada & Iceland showing up for Marah. Thank you. 💚💚

(Obviously if you don't want to buy anything but prefer to send a direct donation get in touch.)

Arablit is a great magazine in general; if you can afford it, both to do something good for the world and yourself, now is the time. I know I'll be getting extra print issues to give to friends!

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Reminder that this week is for Marah.

An Exciting New Lebanese Voice, Now in French This October will see the release of Lebanese writer Souhaib Ayoub’s second novel, Le Loup de la famille (The Wolf of the Family), in Stéphanie Dujols’ translation. Originally published as Zi’b al-…

This October will see the release of Lebanese writer Souhaib Ayoub’s second novel, Le Loup de la famille (The Wolf of the Family), in Stéphanie Dujols’ beautifully fluid translation.
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On Souhaib Ayoub's Tripoli - In conversation with Olivia Snaije. Cute photo of Souhaib with his book.

Today on ArabLit.

This promises to be a powerful collection that demands to be read.

“This earth has lost its way,
and still it spins and spins
on itself.

I am now either something
or nothing. No one can see me
to prove that truth.”

An Exciting New Lebanese Voice, Now in French This October will see the release of Lebanese writer Souhaib Ayoub’s second novel, Le Loup de la famille (The Wolf of the Family), in Stéphanie Dujols’ translation. Originally published as Zi’b al-‘a’ila in 2024 by Hachette Antoine/Naufal, the French publication is an event for several reasons, not least because an exciting new voice has arrived in French.

An Exciting New Lebanese Voice, Now in French

This October will see the release of Lebanese writer Souhaib Ayoub’s second novel, Le Loup de la famille (The Wolf of the Family), in Stéphanie Dujols’ translation. Originally published as Zi’b al-‘a’ila in 2024 by Hachette Antoine/Naufal, the French…

This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force." visit arablit.org/shop or arablit.gumroad.com.

This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."

Exhibit G: Baby Moses & Khalas — Parapraxis or Notes on Palestinian Interiority Fady Joudah

"I am not visionary. I am not ahead of my time. I am Palestinian in a world blind to its time."

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On Waiting for Things That Won’t Come "Seductive Life, don’t disguise yourself. We know you too well. We see you in the airports, embracing the newborns and the newdeads. You carry their pain and plant bewilderment inside them. "

On Waiting for Things That Won’t Come

"Seductive Life, don’t disguise yourself. We know you too well. We see you in the airports, embracing the newborns and the newdeads. You carry their pain and plant bewilderment inside them. "

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.