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After the genocide / the genocide. Three by Fady Joudah: arablit.org/2025/11/05/t...

‘Rewaa, My Beloved…’: New Poetry by Asmaa Dwaima Three months ago, ArabLit contributor Asmaa Dwaima lost her sister, who was martyred along with her little son. This poem is for her sister, Rewaa.

Three Poems by Fady Joudah "After the genocide, / the genocide."

Someone’s Daughter: Lives on The Shore Series: Part One A young couple meets in the ruins, defying everything, stealing moments to feel human once again. Above them, an eye watches from a distance. Between the watcher and the watched, a single moment will decide everything.

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

Two New Poems by Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib Nineteen-year-old poet Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib is a student in data science in Gaza who is one of the laureates of ArabLit's Summer 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Series; her work has appeared in Spanish with Elvantodelsuimangr and Gaza Tarevista.

If you're in London: www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...

For the Palestinian folklore friends, here's a podcast all about one of our folkways: embroidery, otherwise known as tatreez and tahriri. Check them out! www.tatreeztalk.com

Classic Short Fiction: ‘Deducted from Official Budgetary Sources’ A classic office farce from Al-Sahhar's collection "Being a Civil Servant," published in 1944.

Forthcoming November 2025: New Saudi Poetry, the Memoir of a Palestinian Communist, More 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.

Bothayna Al-Essa @noonanerik.bsky.social Dimitris Lyacos, Toti O’Brien, @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social + more — goes out Friday (2/2) sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

A Syrian Masterclass in the Art of Being Human Ten months and six days after the sudden fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime, DoppelHouse Press released Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution, the eyewitness chronicles of nurse-turned-frontline-war-reporter Hadi Abdullah,…

‘Gaza, the Game the Elephant Swallows Every Time’ Writer Husam Maarouf returns to Deir al-Balah in what feels like the same displacement and return he experienced only months ago.

'Llegir Palestina': Making a Space to Read About Palestine With Danae Fonseca and Dana Dhailieh "And above all, we would encourage them to simply go for it: many people want to read about Palestine but don't have a space to do so. Creating that space is necessary."

If you're at all interested in forming a Palestinian-literature-focused book club, don't miss this Q&A today on ArabLit. arablit.org/2025/10/28/l...

‘Llegir Palestina’: Making a Space to Read About Palestine The book club “Llegir Palestina” (“Read Palestine” in Catalan) has been a success in Catalunya’s public libraries; next, organizers plan to offer workshops to library staff and volunteers on how to start up their own “Read Palestine” books…

Hanan Issa, Writing After Nazik al Malaika This poem was commissioned for the Voiced festival, highlighting global and local endangered languages through creativity; author Hanan Issa also talks here about her relationship with the poetry of Nazik al Malaika.

VOICES OF RESILIENCE: Diaries & Poetry from Gaza ✍ 📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social 🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913 'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.' ✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra 🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan

Love this beautiful book, out now from Tuttle.

Inji Efflatoun’s ‘A Meeting at the Prosecutor’s Office’ This book was the subject of a recent episode of the BULAQ podcast; today, with permission, we bring you a section from the memoir soon after Inji Efflatoun meets her beloved husband Hamdi, who she was originally wary of -- since he was a…

Congratulations, Ibrahim Nasrallah & congratulations to the Neustadt on this excellent choice. arablit.org/2025/10/22/2...

2026 Neustadt Prize to Ibrahim Nasrallah Yesterday evening, organizers announced the great Palestinian novelist and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah as the 29th laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. 

From Saga Hamdan’s ‘Red Light’ This is part of a longer story, "Maryam," (2022) by Palestinian author Saga Hamdan.

Zaid Rahbani: Son by Choice, Father Despite Himself, Youthful Forever Nael Eltoukhy remembers his relationship with the life, music, and legacy of Zaid Rahbani.

In the weeks following the ceasefire of January 2025, which lasted 42 days, Mohammed Mhawish spoke with people in Gaza to record their stories in the moments, hours, and days after it was announced. From Mohammed Mhawish’s “After the Ceasefire” in 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. palfest/bookshelf

‘Reaching Heba in My Dreams’ It was October 20, 2023 when poet, novelist, and educator Heba Abu Nada was killed by an Israeli airstrike. She was 32. Here, her sister Somaia strings together time, place, and memory.

“How can you kill them now? Under which soil would you bury them, so that they turn into nothing but glass, so that your eyes will meet annihilation one last time in theirs.” — Samar Al-Ghussein Read her powerful poetry in its entirety at the link below.

‘There is a continuing trauma and new threats to our safety from gangs who terrorise us. Our ordeal has changed, but it’s far from over’ Sondos in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Shadows of My Fate': Two Poems by Samar Al Ghussein arablit.org/2025/10/16/s...

For those who need a little joy, you can find a video of Bassem finally embracing his sister after 21 years in prison: www.instagram.com/arablitorg/ (If you plan to make comments about Bassem's conviction do at least read the UN reports on his sham trial first.)

‘Shadows of My Fate’: Two Poems by Samar Al Ghussein These two poems are by Samar Al-Ghussein, a young Palestinian writer from Gaza who is at work on her first collection.

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I’ve read “Tale of a Wall”… his certainty that he would be in prison forever - I can’t imagine how this must feel…

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Wilding Language: Salim Barakat Between a Kurdish Heart and an Arabic Voice In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy discuss the idea of untranslatability (and perhaps, by extension, unreadability) and the work Salim Barakat, and why, if a…

Thrilled to see Leila Aboulela awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize! Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving. Read it here via Wasafiri: www.wasafiri.org/content/the-... #LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘The Birds of Ala’ Al-Najjar’ On Friday morning, the 23rd of May 2025, while Ala’ Al-Najjar, a Palestinian pediatrician at Al-Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza Strip, was treating the wounds of the injured children of the genocidal Israeli war, she…

Today on ArabLit. arablit.org/2025/10/10/a...

‘A City Beyond History’: New Poetry by Doha Kahlout "Press your body to the sea— / it comes out cool, unharmed— / and let tears move across your hidden grief."

‘Even Flowers Die Softly’ This month, Maamoul Press publishes a new zine by young Gazan creators Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa el-Banna: The Final Scene.

I read this and I thought “wait, designers should be dreaming bigger than ever”. This is *precisely* the time for dreamers.

New Short Fiction: Badar Salem’s ‘The Scent That Followed’ Everything was fine -- until she read that story. 

🚨Available for purchase in a risograph printed zine or as a PDF, from Maamoul Press, all proceeds will support Jehad and Esraa. maamoulpress.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?... + Watch a video of the making of the zine: maamoulpress.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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."

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