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May Ziadeh Salon and Book Pre-Launch Who was May Ziadeh (1886-1941) & why was she an important part of Arabic letters? An introduction to Ziadeh's "Musings of a Young Woman." Come for the first of our May Ziadeh salons and a book pre-launch celebration of Musings of a Young Woman (forthcoming, ArabLit Books). Join scholars, translators, editors, & enthusiasts to learn more about May Ziadeh, her writing, and her importance to the early twentieth century literary scene. Join Dana Al Shahbari, a May Ziadeh scholar who wrote the introduction to the book; the book's managing editor, Ibtihal Mahmood; one of our translators, the novelist Layla Alammar; and editor Mennan Salih. Emceed by ArabLit's founding editor M Lynx Qualey.
Coming Soon - Announcement coming MAY 1 - #TheMonthofMay
Photos of guest editors Fadi Azzam and Ghada Alatrash.
Translated Gems selections for Read Palestine Week - Day 1.
Marriage is the afterlife for which we have to cross this life, leaving behind our homes and pasts, waiting for justice with a light heart, where our homes become our graves. We decorate them with everything we wished for in another version of life, the unromantic family that we hate while living with it, but echo when we’re away. No one knows their fate in the afterlife. We hear the distant, holy melodies while we sleep upon silk bedcovers and eat from silver plates, not knowing they belong to a murderer. Out there, murder is so casual. Freedom is slippery. Pleasure is a negotiation. Tenderness means you’re easy prey. Vulnerability means you’re certainly dead. Crying means the other did catch you. Marriage is a divine, locked-up place.
A violence exiting is still a violence. After the genocide, the genocide. The river that would have carved a different earth, the river a carved earth summoned. But since the flood, the magnificent flood, your eyes on the fire, your indifference exiting. Is this love? But since the last dropped bomb your indifference entering. After the genocide, the genocide.
Photos of Ibrahim Nasrallah, 2025 Neustadt winner.
Photo of Nile Nightshade, by Anny Gaul.
Since the inception of the Palestine Library Frankfurt, we have been able to assemble an ever growing catalogue of hundreds of books not only on the issue of Palestine, but anticolonial and liberatory struggles worldwide. Visitors will be able to browse a selection of these at the event, and, once we start our lending program, take out books, just as in any public library. We also welcome publishers to send in samples of relevant publications to be exhibited at the liberatory book fair. In addition to this, we have a packed program of workshops, listening sessions, poetry readings, panel discussions and more, on topics such as: international law as neocolonialism (with Lena Salaymeh), the political economy of the Gaza genocide (with Shir Hever), militant forms of publishing, Palestinian song and poetry (with Club Sheikh Imam), and many more. Of great significance to the inception of this year’s fair is also our internationalist commitment. Though of course limited by both our means and the available time, we are looking forward to the interaction between movements and communities the fair will facilitate through the platforming of multiple localities of liberatory struggle.
On Souhaib Ayoub's Tripoli - In conversation with Olivia Snaije. Cute photo of Souhaib with his book.
This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force." visit arablit.org/shop or arablit.gumroad.com.
This earth has lost its way, and still it spins and spins on itself.
List of 2025 entries & judges for the Banipal prize. Complete list at ArabLit.org