Language in Pain | literatur.review A deep reading of „Coffin of Silence“ by Badia Kashgari

In 'Coffins of Silence', Badia Kashgari writes pain without spectacle — where exile fractures identity, yet memory refuses to die. A precise reading by Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi...
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✍️ Metwally Bassal – Crafting Stories of Everyday Life

📖 A storyteller whose words reflect the depth of human reality.

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To My Mother. Mahmoud Darwish To My Mother. Mahmoud Darwish, Arabic English Translation. Mahmoud Darwish, a renowned Palestinian poet born in 1941 in Galilee, spent significant time in exile in Beirut and Paris. Notably, he wro…

Darwish, who died in 2008, left behind a body of work that continues to speak to millions across the world. His words remind us that poetry is not escape—it's a form of holding on.

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Salma Marshak, the Lebanese-Egyptian writer and intellectual, passed away today. Despite the grief from her son Loukman Slim's assassination in 2021, she focused on justice and made significant contributions to Arabic literature.

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Currently reading: Hassan Aourid’s attempt to imagine al-Mutanabbi appearing in modern Rabat.

The book was on the 2020 longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, but it hasn’t been translated yet

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A street through a wall | literatur.review Five poems from Saudi Arabia

Five poems from Saudi Arabia by Ali Al Hazmi: loss, desire, exile, the sea as memory and threat. A street through a wall — powerful contemporary Arabic poetry in translation...
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ندوة "الكتاب العربي والهوية الثقافية" + حفل تكريم الفائزين ل #جائزة_الكتاب_العربي
برعاية كريمة من #اللجنة_الوطنية_القطرية_للتربية_والثقافة_والعلوم

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"Life is already difficult enough" | literatur.review Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension betwe...

“Life is already difficult enough.” Egpytian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on absurdity, fantasy, writing under pressure, and why literature can never fully escape reality...
#booksky #egypt #cairo #arabicliterature #arabliterature #egyptianliterature #arabic
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On the present state of Moroccan literature | literatur.review On canon formation, linguistic diversity and literature beyond the centre

Is Moroccan literature really marginal — or radically plural? In this essay, Mohamed Khalfouf explores canon formation, multilingualism and literary renewal beyond the centre...
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Did you know Al-A'sha's ancient Arabic poetry (Q19426543) influenced pre-Islamic literary traditions? His vivid verses captured desert life and tribal ethos, bridging oral & written cultures. #GoldenOdes #PreIslamicPoetry #ArabicLiterature

Books 171, 172 & 173 of 2025: Classical Poems by Arab Women, ed. Abdullah al-Udhari; Six Plays & Student Plays, by Desmond Sim. #yishreads #arabicliterature #singlit

The stranger on the edge of the valley | literatur.review A Lebanese story

A taciturn and mysterious stranger with no past appears in a village...This month's short story by Jana elHassan is a masterfully told parable about projection, fear, and the need to give a name to the incomprehensible...
#booksky #arabicliterature #lebanon
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بفخر واعتزاز، تعلن وكالة كنزى للنشر عن قرب إطلاق الرواية الفائزة في مسابقة "كنزى للأصوات الشابة"، وهي العمل الأدبي الجريء والمؤثر:

📖 رواية: "إنهُ أَبي"
🖋️ للكاتبة المبدعة: زبيده سعود Zubidah Soud
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The blood of the gazelle | literatur.review A poem from Egypt

Our poetess of the month is Aya Gamal Mohey Eldeen from Egypt, who has sent us a wonderful, lucid poem entitled 'The blood of the gazelle'...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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#booksky #egypt #arabicliterature #poem #poetry

Fear of the Camera | literatur.review Three Syrian faces for one body

We are delighted to publish the winner of the Michel Kilo Prize for Political Essays: Omar Alhadi’s magnificent text on the sobering effect of social media in Syria and the increasing loss of identity of an entire society...
#booksky #syria #arabicliterature
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A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography Fadwa Tuqan with translation by Olive Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye 241 pages • first pub 1990 "Fadwa Touqan (Arabic: فدوى طوقان‎, also transliterated as Fadwa Tuqan, Spanish: Fadwa Tuqan, French: Fadwa Touquan and Fadwa Touqan; 1917 in Nablus – 2003), was well known for her representations of resistance to Israeli occupation in contemporary Arab poetry. Touqan's poetry is known for her distinctive chronicling of the suffering of her people, the Palestinian, particularly those living under Israeli occupation."

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#Books #WomenWriting Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography
Fadwa Tuqan with translation by Olive Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye

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The wall | literatur.review A Short Story from Syria

We are very pleased to share a short story by Syrian writer Rami Tawil. Passages from „The Wall“ remind us of Kafka’s shortest texts. However, Tawil has his very own unique writing style...
#booksky #arabicliterature #syria #syrianliterature #shortstory #kafka
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Arabic literature has lost one of its prominent figures, the Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim (1937-2025). His works, translated into French by Richard Jacquemond, Yves Gonzalez-Quijano & Jean-François Fourcade, have been published in France by Actes Sud since 1987 #SonallahIbrahim #Arabicliterature

Pyrotechnic celebrations around a defloration | literatur.review A short story from Yemen

The second short story in our summer special is by Yemeni author Nadia Alkowkabani and deals with masculine rituals surrounding defloration...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
#booksky #arabicliterature #yemen
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The Narrative Classification of Al-Hamadhānī&apos;s Maqāmāt <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: التصنيفُ السرديُّ لمقامات الهمذاني </span> <p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d19309247e39">The research aims to reveal the nature of the narrative structure that hides behind the ...

'The Narrative Classification of Al-Hamadhānī's Maqāmāt' - a new Ansaq Journal article on #ScienceOpen:

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As if I never existed... As if I were still here | literatur.review A collection of poems about loss, hope, and an ever-fluid reality

Our poet of the month is Leila Eid, a Lebanese poet, writer and journalist who is currently considered one of the most important Lebanese women poets. We present a small collection of her poems about loss, hope and an ever fluid reality...
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News flash | literatur.review A story from Saudi Arabia

Our short story of the month is by one of the co-founders of literary modernism in Saudi Arabia, Saad Al Dousari. It is a story about oppression and war, and could not be more relevant to our fragile present...
#booksky #saudiaarabia #arabicliterature
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At the beginning | literatur.review A poem about the search for an inner home and the silence of despair

Our poem of the month is by Alaa Hassanien - a poem about the search for the inner homeland and the silence of despair...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
#booksky #egypt #arabicliterature #arabic #poetry
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Forthcoming in November: "Le romantisme français et la renaissance arabe: héritages croisés" by Manel Belhadj Ali @ugaeditions.bsky.social www.uga-editions.com/menu-princip... #Frenchromanticism #romanticism #Nahda #Arabicliterature #ArabAwakening #ArabEnlightenment #renaissancearabe #romantisme

I was born a hidden body | literatur.review Excerpts from "The Book of the Body"...

Our poem of the month is taken from „The Book of the Body“ by Lamia Makkadam, published by Dar Takween as part of the „Eshrakat“ series, supervised and introduced by poet Adonis...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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Pregnancy cravings | literatur.review A story from Tunisia

Today's short story comes from Tunisia and is written by Hassan Marzougui, who takes a humorous look at the power of the spoken and written word and how old traditions can be reused to shape the truth...
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Nostalgia for vanished cities | literatur.review My lost Cairo

In a personal essay, the Egyptian writer, journalist and filmmaker Alaa Hassanien, who lives in France, describes her painful longing for a city that has disappeared from her life...

#cairo #arabicliterature #egypt #diaspora #arabliterature #nostalgia #paris

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The Classical Arabic <i>Maqāma</i> in Yorubaland, Nigeria "The Classical Arabic <i>Maqāma</i> in Yorubaland, Nigeria" published on 03 Mar 2025 by Brill.

Neuerscheinung:
The classical Arabic Maqāma in Yorubaland, Nigeria : texts, contexts, and scholars / by Sulaiman Adewale Alagunfon. - Brill, 2025.
ISBN 978-90-04-71612-4
(Global Arabic literary cultures ; volume 1)
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Goodbye Carmen Karim... | literatur.review I'm finally free of my pseudonym

In a personal essay, the Syrian poet, writer and journalist Manahel Alsahoui writes about her double identity with a pseudonym under the rule of Assad...
(Available in the original Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
💙📚 #syria #arabicliterature #arabliterature
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