This month, Maamoul Press publishes a new zine by young Gazan creators Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa el-Banna: The Final Scene.

Everything was fine -- until she read that story. 

"Even writing, even a warm home—I am afraid of losing them at any moment, of becoming homeless again, of searching for a language that resembles me."

Thank you so much for preordering Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul. Note: submitting a patron request to your public or institutional library counts as a preo...

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French publisher Fidel Anthelme X is planning to bring out a bilingual Arabic-French collection by Palestinian poet Dana Flaifl, Tout ce que j’ai c’est l’écriture, avec elle je résiste, translated to the French by Lotfi Nia. The publisher does not have funding for this book, and printing costs are just over €1,000. The book is scheduled for release in January 2026, and the publisher is now offering the book for sale at €10 + €3 shipping (in France), to raise the necessary funds for its publication.

Two searing poems about the cycle of war and suffering by Sudanese poet and journalist Essam Eisa Rajab.

As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know.

The second Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair is set to take place October 17-19. The PLBF promises three days of interviews, talks, panels, workshops and readings centering the Palestinian struggle; organizers answered a few questions about this year's fair.

Presentation of the artist book (or maybe I should say box set) that resulted from my Visiting Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, October-December 2024.

In this classic short fiction from 1920, Issa Ebeid depicts a twice-divorced Egyptian woman as she examines the reasons society has made a happy, loving marriage impossible.

In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

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