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Where is Everybody?
Originally published in December 2012, “Where Is Everybody?” is a celebrated essay by Egyptian writer and novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, later collected in Coffee with Uranium, first published in 2012....
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A Football Chant for Egypt
For our Fall 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, we ran several different football chants from countries across the region. As editors Nashwa Nasreldin and Leonie Böttiger wrote: “The old adage that...
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From Mohamed Mansi Qandil’s ‘The Country Doctor’s Tale’
At this point in The Country Doctor’s Tale, the titular country doctor is returning from a house call when he suddenly discovers political posters everywhere, even on the walls of the clinic. He is...
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‘Can We Get in Touch with You?’ Short Fiction by Mai Al-Maghribi
Can We Get in Touch with You? By Mai Al-Maghribi Translated by Meriem Essaoudy Salting, milking, sprinkling plaster and lime, then pounding—Mahmoud’s role comes after that. This was after my uncle...
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New Short Fiction: ‘You Know Nothing of Love, Dumbass’
You Know Nothing of Love, Dumbass By Kareem Mohsen Translated by Mandy McClure We sat side by side in the restaurant. I made sure our knees were touching to create a safe passage for desire. We...
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Sarah Enany on Living — And Making a Living — As a Translator in Egypt
Sarah Enany is a Banipal Prize-winning literary translator (for her translation of Rasha Adly’s The Girl with Braided Hair) and a professor in the English Department of Cairo University. She has...
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Early 20th Century Short Fiction in Translation: Muhammad Taymour’s ‘A Boy...
This short story originally appeared in Muhammad Taymour’s collection What the Eyes Can See (1922), and this story was written in 1917. It recounts events in the life a fictional young scallywag, Ahmad...
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Sunday Submissions: Rowayat’s ‘Faith’ Issue & Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Egyptian magazine Rowayat has opened submissions for its sixth issue, ‘Faith’, and applications for Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Writers‘ Conference are also now open. Rowayat write: Word is faith. A word...
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From ALQ: A Playlist for the Underground Music Scene of Post-Revolutionary Egypt
The most recent JOKE-themed issue of ArabLit Quarterly features, among other things, an anonymous essay examining the joke as a counter-hegemonic discourse in the underground music scene of...
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New Short Fiction: ‘Invisible,’ by Taha Sewedy
A short mirror tale from Egypt to accompany our Spring 2022 MIRRORS issue: By Taha Sewedy Translated by Nema Alaraby He gazed at his trembling index finger. A droplet of blood made its way across his...
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13 Books in Translation: A Literary History of Egypt After 2011
Many Egyptian literary works set in or after 2011 were composed in Arabic, English, and other languages, ranging from hastily conceived memoirs to epic poems to plays to surrealist short stories to...
View Article9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation
Although this list does include short stories by Radwa Ashour and Salwa Bakr, it largely focuses on work by women writers who emerged in the '90s, '00s, and '10s.
View ArticleTareq Imam: ‘The Writer Has Become Everyone’s Target’
"Translators have approached me in the past about translating my work into English, but it didn’t come to anything because I wasn’t comfortable with some of their editorial suggestions, such as...
View ArticleOn Edwar al-Kharrat Day: His Memories, His Library
Edwar al-Kharrat (1926-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer, and critic, and great lover of books. He would have been 95 today. In his honor, we revisit this special section.
View ArticleOn the Redemptive Power of Madness
History of the Gods of Egypt is a metaficitional narrative that not only addresses the transgenerational political and social trauma in an unsettling near-future Egypt but also ponders the nature of...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Ahmed Naji, ‘Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison’
"Around a century later, in Cairo, during the obscenity trial of my novel Using Life, the assistant attorney for the prosecution challenged my defense attorney and the respected literary figures we had...
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Celebrating Neil Hewison: An Excerpt from His Translation of ‘City of Love...
Every Thursday in October, ArabLit is celebrating and reflecting on Neil Hewison’s thirty-one years at American University in Cairo Press, during which he helped shape what we know as Arabic...
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5 Books: Neil Hewison’s Most Memorable Books from 31 Years at AUC Press
At the end of this month, the American University in Cairo Press’s R. Neil Hewison will retire as Associate Director for Editorial Programs after more than 30 years at the publishing house. Thursdays...
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‘Book of Sleep’: Intensive Reflections from Haytham El-Wardany
Haytham El-Wardany is the unique and compelling author of How to Disappear, among other works. Here, novelist Mahmoud Hosny explores El-Wardany’s newest, genre-fluid book: By Mahmoud Hosny In his most...
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In Celebration of Neil Hewison: An Except from His Translation of Yusuf Abu...
butchThis excerpt of Yusuf Abu Rayya’s Wedding Night, trans. Neil Hewison, appears with permission from AUC Press in celebration of Hewison’s 31 years at the press. He retires at the end of this...
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