Join us Liverpool Arab Arts Festival for 2 amazing events on Yemeni and Palestinian short fiction! 📚 🗓️Jul 16: PALESTINE - 1 preview w/ Basma Ghalayini, mazen maarouf مازن معروف & Anwar Hamed 🇵🇸 🗓️Jul 19: THE BOOK OF SANA'A launch with Laura Laura Kasinof, Rim Mugahed, Mohammed Ghalayini & Su Annagib 🇾🇪 🎟️👇

80 years old cartoon that is still relevant

‘This is the most powerful work of collective testament I have ever read. It is a breathtaking and spirit-forging book. It tells it as it is. It could not be more crucial or more urgent. Read it now.’ — Ali Smith 📕Voices of Resistance (Pub. July 17) commapress.co.uk/books/voices-o…

1/8 The horrors of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians ratchet up unabated. In this piece, I reflect on bearing witness while trying to find more impactful ways to resist and take direct action against the forces of genocide and empire: amal-dechickera.medium.com/from-bearing-w…

We spoke with mouths filled with dust. We sang, even with broken teeth. We prayed from fractured knees. And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain. -Alaa Alqaisi arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…

“A Love That Endures”: How Tamer and Sabreen Defied War and Death Today on The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social by Husam Maarouf. themarkaz.org/a-love-that-en…

Support Husam's new publishing initiative, Gaza Publications, by buying their debut work: han-dal.net/shop/books/the…

Read a translation of one of the short stories (tr. the amazing & brilliant & one-of-one آلاء) here: arablit.org/2025/06/12/bir…

‘I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland but I’m trapped in Gaza’. PhD candidate Shaimaa was set to do research in ArabSF in Edinburgh (inc. an internship at Comma) but now the Home Office is making it impossible for her to get a visa. youtu.be/vcKKsgWftso?si…

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." آلاء for ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…

Alaa's essay now published in Slovenian: jalastovka.si/pod-tuljenjem-… in Greek: linkedin.com/posts/gelly-ar… in Albanian: nyje.al/nen-ulerimen-e… Please be in touch if you are translating.

Just over the last 24 hours: * A GHF security guard admitted to massive slighter of unarmed starving civilians. * Israeli media reported that Israel has been “letting in aid” and then destroying it in huge numbers. * An Israeli security official admitted that Hamas is not

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim This is not true. They knew exactly what was going on, it was never a secret, officials voiced it freely, & the media discussed it openly. Nothing was done covertly. No one inside the occupied territories can claim ignorance. They knew, encouraged, & applauded it all.

🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31stfor a chance to: • Win $500 • Be published in Rowayat’s Fall 2025 Issue (Issue 13) • Get a mentorship session with our poetry judge Sara Elkamel

My new poem in the yet new phase of genocide Your Tweet Says It All In three days it’ll be 666 revolutions around itself since the earth has spun my annihilation. I acknowledge the land you’re standing on.

جريدة أخبار الأدب الصادرة عن مؤسسة أخبار اليوم، تفرد عددًا خاصاً عن الروائي المصري الراحل والاديب الكبير صنع الله إبراهيم #صنع_الله_إبراهيم

Don't miss this month's "Between Two Arabic Translators" with Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim: arablit.org/2025/08/14/tra…

My story under RSF siege in Khartoum is now published in The Continent 🥳🔥 “Gunfire at dawn. Shortages. Survival. Humanity in the middle of war.” Read here full version page 17-18: [thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287…] #Sudan #Khartoum #TheContinent #KeepEyesOnSudan

The whole issue is excellent, with stories from Kenya, Congo, Senegal and more. But the 9 page spread about Sudan is *GREAT*, especially for anyone trying to get a sense of "who the good guys are". Spoiler alert: it's the people. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Find out more inside about: *Egyptian mythology *This witty retelling *Capitalization and James's Strategies for Translating Humor *More arablit.org/2025/09/02/the…