Born in the mid-1980s, Ahmed Alhokail is among the most distinctive Saudi writers of his generation. In this exchange, he talks about placing the ordinary at the center of the story, classical Arab…

Born in the mid-1980s, Ahmed Alhokail is among the most distinctive Saudi writers of his generation. In this exchange, he talks about placing the ordinary at the center of the story, classical Arabic narratives as a living model, Najdi oral storytelling and the uncanny, and the “global reader.”

Rashid Khalidi, Eman Abdelhadi &Nadine Naber launching the first english translation of Kanafani's text on Palestinian resistance literature

Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price made the five-book shortlist for the 2026 National Book Awards for Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza.

On Dec. 8, 2024, news of the fall of the Assad regime rippled through the vast Syrian diaspora.  There was laughter, there were tears and there was euphoria. But amid...

At the recent Doha launch of ArabLit Quarterly's Spring 2026 The Fall of Eternity, co-editors Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam spoke with Georgetown University-Qatar professor Youssef Haddad about literature, Syria, and the work of imagining a path forward. Today, we share a short fiction from the issue that attempts part of that re-imagination.

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

Organizers today announced the thirteen books translated from twelve languages that have been longlisted for the 2026 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

This is an unofficial list and we may have missed some titles; if we have, please let us know at info@arablit.org.

Over at CairoScene, Hassan Tarek reports on book-buying trends in Cairo, with a focus on sales at the Diwan bookstore chain.

This story comes from Hussein al-Abri's latest collection, Time Slips Away in the Corner (2026).

Book Review: Ansam Abu Sitta’s ‘Bench of the Reserves’ Reviewed by Nada Hodali Live in the present moment, do not miss out on what is happening there in front of you! Why are you always stuck in the past? Most of us have had this line thrown at us in different situations. In the case of being a Palestinian, however, being stuck either in the past or the future has become a survival mechanism for them.

There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be "Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day."

We're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance.

“Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.”

It's Publication Day for the Penguin edition of Batool Abu Akleen's debut poetry collection 48kg, with translations by Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, and Yasmin Zaher. 

"I’m sitting alone in my room / my clothes scattered around me"

A response to Abdeljawad Omar's "The Failure to Crossover"; an essay from the Refusing Complicity project

Today is the Dublin launch of ArabLit contributor Alaa Alqaisi’s The Thin Border: Living in Extra Time. It is available through Skein Press.

Yesterday, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Nour Balousha wrote these two poems "after I stopped screaming, not because it ended, but because I grew too exhausted to keep screaming."

Mostafa Khraïef (1910-1967) was a prominent Tunisian poet, writer, and journalist.

Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine has arrived for safekeeping at two universities in the United Kingdom

Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine has arrived for safekeeping at two universities in the United Kingdom

A conversation with Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan about her latest novel, Lebanon, memory, patriarchy, migration – and why literature is stronger than a manifesto

Doha, September 08 (QNA) – The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding has received 256 nominations from...

Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Guernica, and more. A winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Aw...

What Laila Lalami’s ‘Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits’ reveals about migration, belonging, and the human stories behind the numbers. By Meriem Essaoudy.

As a way of marking #WorldKidLitMonth, we are refreshing this profile of 10 publishers that have a focus on children’s literature in Arabic.

As a way of marking #WorldKidLitMonth, we are refreshing this profile of 10 publishers that have a focus on children's literature in Arabic.

“Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space.”

The Book of Damascus, ed. Zaher Omareen, is a new anthology in their “Reading the City” series. Here, editor Zaher Omareen talks with Fifi Bat-hef about selecting ten stories to represent a city as…

"Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space."