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ArabLit’s Monthly Newsletter for Publishing Professionals

ArabLit

Our monthly newsletter about Arabic literature and translation aimed at publishing professionals

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May 2026: Translating Oman

Introduction by M Lynx Qualey; selections curated by Sharifah Alhinai. Photos courtesy Sharifah Alhinai.

While other genres have been written in Oman for more than a millennium (poetry in particular), Abdullah Mohammed Al-Taie’s The Angels...

3 days ago
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April 2026: Spring Roundup

The literary world — like the rest of the world — has been changed by the expansion of the US- and Israel-led war on Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. Lebanese authors, translators, and publishers (and their families) have suffered terrible los...

a month ago
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March 2026: A Look at the Saudi Publishing Scene

This month, we’re turning the newsletter over to contributor Mohammad Alanazi, who will give us his bird’s-eye view of a large but less-well-known publishing scene.

Saudi Arabia is one of the larger Arabic-writing nations, with a varied a...

2 months ago
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February 2026: 'Tis the (Lit Prize) Season

Whether you love them, hate them, or love to hate them, it’s hard to ignore literary prizes. (If you care about books, that is.)

Arabic prizes are perhaps even less ignoreable than they are in English, as they play an outsized role both in...

3 months ago
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January 2026: Writing in Arabic, Living in Canada

Several Canadian publishers reached out with interest in Badar Salem’s Lonely as a Crowded Room (sorry everyone! Norm at Invisible moved fastest!), and while most of this interest was driven by Badar’s incisive wit, it’s also true that she...

4 months ago
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