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Women in Translation Month highlights Arab women’s presence in English translations, both as authors, translators, graphic artists or literary scholars. On average, 70% of Arabic translations to English have been works by Arab male authors. The remaining 30% of translations were written by women,
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while many of the authors and the majority of translators of contemporary Arab literature are women. Referring to publishers' recent interest in Arab women writers, often just based on stereotypical attitudes towards women and regardless of their works' literary value,
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Story Prize, launched in 2018, is an award for remarkable works in any genre, newly translated from Arabic into English. In 2020, ALQ Books announced their first limited-edition book, a collection of short stories by Palestinian author
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has published translations, essays and reviews of Arabic literature, often curated by contributing editors, background information on writers and their works, interviews with authors, translators, agents, publishers, booksellers, and
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as a print and electronic magazine, books with selected contemporary Arabic literary works and a daily newsletter about current publications of different genres of Arabic literature in English translation. Further,
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highlights literature by Arab women during the Women in Translation Month, founded by the book blogger Meytal Radzinski in 2014. This initiative, related to the Three Percent website at
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quoted Syrian writer Abeer Esber who said that “Unfortunately, women in Arab countries are currently finding it easier, for all the wrong reasons, to find a publisher for their books.”
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by Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr, written on Arabic books for teens and participated in academic forums. She and other literary translators and consultants publish the website
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or other Arabic literatures. In an article about the literary qualities of books by Arab writers and in relationship to their cultural background in German magazine
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Award as Best Literary Microjournal, based on “The kaleidoscope of works… striking in their individual depth and relative divergence.”
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and has since developed into a source of daily news and views on Arabic literature and translation. On its webpage, in
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is produced and distributed in North America and Europe in print copies, as well as in
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Following several daily newsletters about literature and writers from Gaza during the
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Three Percent, a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester
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Lynx Qualey also has translated Arabic novels for young readers, such as
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University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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Thunderbird Book One By Sonia Nimr, translated by M. Lynx Qualey
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Arabic literature unveiled: challenges of translation.
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Syrian writer Abeer Esber on the male-female debate:
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won the Literary Translation Initiative Award at the
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The International Journal of Young Adult Literature
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online literary magazine
www.arablit.org
translations
Arabic literature
blog
podcasts
YouTube
booktubers
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Zakaria Tamer
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Salim Barakat
Abdallah Zrika
Nazik Al-Malaika
Layla Balabakki
Yassin Adnan
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
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Samira Azzam
Adania Shibli
editor-in-chief
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Iraqi
Sudanese
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