ArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The River in the Belly
Fiston Mwanza MujilaArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)There was an incredible shortlist this year, which included Salim Barakat's "Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems," tr. @FakhreddineHuda & Jayson Iwen (whose work has appeared in ALQ) and Fiston Mwanza Mujila's "The River in the Belly," tr. @jbretmaney. https://t.co/zxipMVsrFS
Paperback, 2021
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
Shahd AlshammariArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)@A_B_Morgan @sawadhussain Written in English Layla AlAmmar's Silence is a Sense & The Pact We Made; Mai al-Nakib's An Unlasting Home & The Hidden Light of Objects; Shahd Alshammari's memoir "Head Above Water"
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Here Is a Body
Basma Abdel AzizArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)Basma Abdel Aziz in @worldlittoday speaking w/Linyao Ma on her novels The Queue (tr. @lissiejaquette) and Here Is a Body (tr. Jonathan Wright). " So, when I was writing my novels they were not dystopian in my mind. I was surprised by the classification." https://t.co/HPIGwRTZad
Paperback, 2021
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winter Numbers: Poems
Marilyn HackerArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)We have finished putting together the list of @arablit's 10 most-read stories, poems, & essays of 2022*. Thanks to contributors Hend Saeed; @ghadaalatrash & @fadiazzam (who appear twice); Marilyn Hacker; Yasmina Jraissati; Khaled Rajeh; @tamacahut; @Leonie_Rau_; & Elliott Colla
Paperback, 2010
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thirteen Months of Sunrise
Rania MamounArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)Enter & win Rania Mamoun's beautiful "Thirteen Months of Sunrise" in beautiful tr. by Lissie Jaquette. https://t.co/3Bjai7zY5O
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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja ShehadehArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)Nonfiction *Raja Shehadeh's "Palestinian Walks" Poetry ... too much to mention? Genre-blending *Ghassan Zaqtan's "Where the Bird Disappeared" & "Describing the Past" *Amr Ezzat's "The Deer's Visit" Add yours?
Paperback, 2008
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Absinthe: World Literature in Translation: Volume 28: Orphaned of Light: Translating Arab and Arabophone Migration
Graham LiddellArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)“Orphaned of Light”: Graham Liddell on Editing ‘Absinthe 28’ and Translating Arab/ic Migration https://t.co/zYdCVsoP2m
Paperback, 2022
$12.99Member price:$11.69 + Free shipping10% off
Men Don't Cry
Faiza GueneArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)Includes Algerian-French novelist Faïza Guène's Men Don’t Cry, translated from French by Sarah Ardizzone. https://t.co/9aAPp80cbY
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Open Door
Latifa Al-ZayyatArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)@meznaqato @johnpmerrick ohh if I was going to rec a Sonallah Ibrahim on political commitment it might be Warda, which has been translated by Hosam Aboul-ela. Other lit centering political commitment...there's Radwa Ashour's work, like maybe Spectres tr. Barbara Romaine. Or The Open Door Latifa al-Zayyat
Paperback, 2017
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The Furrows
Namwali SerpellArabLit (also @arablit.bsky.social)@ReemK10 Have read Namwali Serpell's "The Furrows" and strongly recommend.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book