On September 30, 2026, PEN Sudan was formally admitted to PEN International during the 92nd PEN International Congress.

By Carlos Javier Jarquín Dear planetary friends: Today, I have the pleasure of sharing an engaging interview I conducted with Palestinian poet, translator, and interpreter Alice S. Yousef. She was b...

On May 1st—yes, May in May—the English translation of Sawanih Fatat (Musings of a Young Woman) by May Ziadeh arrives as the second title in ArabLit’s ERASED, NOT FORGOTTEN series, following Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam (tr. Ranya Abdelrahman).

Forthcoming this month: Two criminal investigations from Algeria, an anthology of raw portraits of Gaza from emerging writers, and a new collection of poems by Ghassan Zaqtan.

ALT: a man is standing in a room filled with lots of books and talking on a cell phone .

Fourteen titles have been longlisted for the 8th annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The 2025 competition received a total of 145 eligible entries from 34 languages. The lon…

"After the genocide, / the genocide."

We were three editors coming together, bringing our wide variety of cultural influences, creative backgrounds and literary tastes, seeking to foster dialogues across struggles, generations, centuries,...

minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opinio…

Join Magma contributors and editors for an evening of poetry on the theme 'Liberation'.

This October will see the release of Lebanese writer Souhaib Ayoub’s second novel, Le Loup de la famille (The Wolf of the Family), in Stéphanie Dujols’ translation. Originally published as Zi’b al-‘a’ila in 2024 by Hachette Antoine/Naufal, the French publication is an event for several reasons, not least because an exciting new voice has arrived in French.

“We are thrilled to see Alaa reunited with his family and friends and look forward to seeing him together with his son in the UK. He is a remarkable writer and activist who should never have been impr...

Reports say writer, who has served six years for liking a Facebook post, has also been given a presidential pardon

Next year, Henar Press will bring out its first two titles, translated from Kurdish to English. But already, their website — with its Kurdish Literary Database — is contributing to a wi…

Although we generally focus on literature in translation, this encompasses literature written by Palestinians in any language (and a few additional titles at the end). Please let us know if you hav…

Two of the inaugural six winning projects were books in Arabic: Ireme by Stella Gaitano, with a winning sample translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Najlaa Eltom; and Playing with Soldiers by Tariq Asrawi, with a winning sample translation by Anam Zafar.