Back Issues

(Spring 2021)

Cover painting of Mahmoud Shukair created for the issue by Kawoosh

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Ammar Almamoun reviews al-Nawm fi Haql al-Karaz (At Rest in the Cherry Orchard), a novel by Azher Jirjees

Azher Jirjees: Three excerpts from the novel al-Nawm fi Haql al-Karaz (At Rest in the Cherry Orchard), translated by Jonathan Wright

Hassan Abdel Mawgoud: A Bicycle Brings an Old Comrade, a short story, translated by Raphael Cohen, from the author’s collection Huroub Fatina (Ravishing Wars), published by Al-Kotob Khan, Cairo 2018

Katia al-Tawil reviews Lam yusalli ‘alaihum ahad (No One Prayed Over Their Graves) by Khaled Khalifa

Khaled Khalifa: Excerpt from his novel Lam yusalli ‘alaihum ahad (No One Prayed Over Their Graves), translated by Leri Price

INTERVIEW with Lebanese writer Alawiya Sobh
by Katia al-Tawil

Alawiya Sobh: Three chapters from her latest novel An Ta’ashaq al-Hayat
(To Love Life), translated by Nancy Roberts

SPECIAL FEATURE

MAHMOUD SHUKAIR, WRITING JERUSALEM

Mahmoud Shukair: Three short stories, translated by Samira Kawar

Fakhri Saleh: On the Literary achievement of Mahmoud Shukair

Aida Fahmawi Watad: Palestinian Writing, Inside a Closed-Open Cage    

Fayez Ghazi reviews the novel
Dhilal al-‘A’ilah (Shadows of the Family) by Mahmoud Shukair

Mahmoud Shukair: Excerpt from Shadows of the Family, translated by Karen McNeil and Miled Faiza

Hannah Somerville reviews Mordechai’s Moustache and his Wife’s Cats and other stories by Mahmoud Shukair, translated by Issa J Boullata, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Elizabeth Winslow and Christina Phillips

Susannah Tarbush reviews Jerusalem Stands Alone by Mahmoud Shukair, translated by Nicole Fares

Mahmoud Shukair: 26 Micro Stories, translated by Mayada Ibrahim

Ibrahim Nasrallah reviews Faras al-'A’ilah (The Family Mare) by Mahmoud Shukair

Mahmoud Shukair: The Phantom, a short story, translated by Paul Starkey

GUEST WRITER

Trino Cruz The Fertile Shore, selected poems

INTERVIEW

Interview with the editors of Maktoob, the project for translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew

BOOK REVIEWS

Joselyn Michelle Almeida reviews Fugitive Atlas: Poems by Khaled Mattawa

Stephanie Petit reviews De Weekendmiljonair (The Weekend Millionaire) by Abdelkader Benali

Becki Maddock reviews Agadir by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak

LITERARY AWARD

American translator Kay Heikkinen wins the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

for her translation of Velvet by Huzama Habayeb