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Five poems from Saudi Arabia by Ali Al Hazmi: loss, desire, exile, the sea as memory and threat. A street through a wall — powerful contemporary Arabic poetry in translation...
#booksky #arabicliterature #saudiarabia #saudiliterature #arabbooks #arabliterature
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A street through a wall | literatur.review
Five poems from Saudi Arabia
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January 29, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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In ‪#Doha‬, at “The Arabic Book and Cultural Identity” Symposium & the ‪@ArabicBookAward‬ Ceremony to follow later on today.
Held under the patronage ‪@QNC_qa‬

‪#ArabicBookAward‬ ‪#CulturalIdentity‬ ‪#ArabicLiterature‬ ‪#BookAwards‬ ‪#Literature‬ ‪#ArabAuthors‬
‎‫#الثقافة_العربية‬
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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اليوم: 27 يناير 2026
ندوة "الكتاب العربي والهوية الثقافية" + حفل تكريم الفائزين ل #جائزة_الكتاب_العربي
برعاية كريمة من #اللجنة_الوطنية_القطرية_للتربية_والثقافة_والعلوم

#ArabicBookAward #CulturalIdentity #ArabicLiterature #BookAwards #ArabAuthors
#الثقافة_العربية #الكتاب_العربي_والهوية_الثقافية
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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“Life is already difficult enough.” Egpytian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on absurdity, fantasy, writing under pressure, and why literature can never fully escape reality...
#booksky #egypt #cairo #arabicliterature #arabliterature #egyptianliterature #arabic
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"Life is already difficult enough" | literatur.review
Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension betwe...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Is Moroccan literature really marginal — or radically plural? In this essay, Mohamed Khalfouf explores canon formation, multilingualism and literary renewal beyond the centre...
#MoroccanLiterature #Morocco #bluesky #arabicliterature
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On the present state of Moroccan literature | literatur.review
On canon formation, linguistic diversity and literature beyond the centre
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January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Did you know Al-A'sha's ancient Arabic poetry (Q19426543) influenced pre-Islamic literary traditions? His vivid verses captured desert life and tribal ethos, bridging oral & written cultures. #GoldenOdes #PreIslamicPoetry #ArabicLiterature
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Books 171, 172 & 173 of 2025: Classical Poems by Arab Women, ed. Abdullah al-Udhari; Six Plays & Student Plays, by Desmond Sim. #yishreads #arabicliterature #singlit
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A taciturn and mysterious stranger with no past appears in a village...This month's short story by Jana elHassan is a masterfully told parable about projection, fear, and the need to give a name to the incomprehensible...
#booksky #arabicliterature #lebanon
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The stranger on the edge of the valley | literatur.review
A Lebanese story
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October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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بفخر واعتزاز، تعلن وكالة كنزى للنشر عن قرب إطلاق الرواية الفائزة في مسابقة "كنزى للأصوات الشابة"، وهي العمل الأدبي الجريء والمؤثر:

📖 رواية: "إنهُ أَبي"
🖋️ للكاتبة المبدعة: زبيده سعود Zubidah Soud
#KinzyPublishingAgency #ItsMyFatherNovel #ZubaidaSaud #ArabicLiterature #NewRelease ##comıngsoon
October 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Our poetess of the month is Aya Gamal Mohey Eldeen from Egypt, who has sent us a wonderful, lucid poem entitled 'The blood of the gazelle'...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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#booksky #egypt #arabicliterature #poem #poetry
The blood of the gazelle | literatur.review
A poem from Egypt
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October 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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We are delighted to publish the winner of the Michel Kilo Prize for Political Essays: Omar Alhadi’s magnificent text on the sobering effect of social media in Syria and the increasing loss of identity of an entire society...
#booksky #syria #arabicliterature
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Fear of the Camera | literatur.review
Three Syrian faces for one body
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September 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#500GreatBooksByWomen #Memoir
#BookSky 🖊️📚💙 #Palestine #ArabicLiterature
#Books #WomenWriting Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography
Fadwa Tuqan with translation by Olive Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye

241 pages • first pub 1990 See ALT
A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography Fadwa Tuqan with translation by Olive Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye 241 pages • first pub 1990 "Fadwa Touqan (Arabic: فدوى طوقان‎, also transliterated as Fadwa Tuqan, Spanish: Fadwa Tuqan, French: Fadwa Touquan and Fadwa Touqan; 1917 in Nablus – 2003), was well known for her representations of resistance to Israeli occupation in contemporary Arab poetry. Touqan's poetry is known for her distinctive chronicling of the suffering of her people, the Palestinian, particularly those living under Israeli occupation."
September 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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We are very pleased to share a short story by Syrian writer Rami Tawil. Passages from „The Wall“ remind us of Kafka’s shortest texts. However, Tawil has his very own unique writing style...
#booksky #arabicliterature #syria #syrianliterature #shortstory #kafka
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The wall | literatur.review
A Short Story from Syria
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August 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Arabic literature has lost one of its prominent figures, the Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim (1937-2025). His works, translated into French by Richard Jacquemond, Yves Gonzalez-Quijano & Jean-François Fourcade, have been published in France by Actes Sud since 1987 #SonallahIbrahim #Arabicliterature
August 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The second short story in our summer special is by Yemeni author Nadia Alkowkabani and deals with masculine rituals surrounding defloration...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
#booksky #arabicliterature #yemen
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Pyrotechnic celebrations around a defloration | literatur.review
A short story from Yemen
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August 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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'The Narrative Classification of Al-Hamadhānī's Maqāmāt' - a new Ansaq Journal article on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 www.scienceopen.com/document?vid...

🖇️ #Maqamat #ArabicLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Narratology #HeritageTexts
The Narrative Classification of Al-Hamadhānī&apos;s Maqāmāt <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: التصنيفُ السرديُّ لمقامات الهمذاني </span>
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d19309247e39">The research aims to reveal the nature of the narrative structure that hides behind the ...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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... Douagi’s signature satirical style. Each of his adventures promise amusement and curiosity." (from leila-arabicliterature, link in 1st post)

Portuguese translation:
Périplo pelos Bares do Mediterrâneo e Outras Histórias
A mais importante novela (1935) de um dos grandes renovadores da moderna literatura árabe que antecipam, de certa forma, Kerouac ou Bukowski numa realidade completamente diferente.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Our poet of the month is Leila Eid, a Lebanese poet, writer and journalist who is currently considered one of the most important Lebanese women poets. We present a small collection of her poems about loss, hope and an ever fluid reality...
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#booksky #arabicliterature
As if I never existed... As if I were still here | literatur.review
A collection of poems about loss, hope, and an ever-fluid reality
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July 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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No need to point out how important cultural exchanges by way of literature are. To me, the list available on leila-arabicliterature seems like a treasure trove.
Isle of Males
A contemporary Moroccan classic eco-feminist novel of estrangement by the Amazighi scholar, public intellectual, activist, poet and teacher Aziz Benhaddouch (1967-2016). This is an examination of the ...
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July 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Our short story of the month is by one of the co-founders of literary modernism in Saudi Arabia, Saad Al Dousari. It is a story about oppression and war, and could not be more relevant to our fragile present...
#booksky #saudiaarabia #arabicliterature
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News flash | literatur.review
A story from Saudi Arabia
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July 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Our poem of the month is by Alaa Hassanien - a poem about the search for the inner homeland and the silence of despair...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
#booksky #egypt #arabicliterature #arabic #poetry
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At the beginning | literatur.review
A poem about the search for an inner home and the silence of despair
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June 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Forthcoming in November: "Le romantisme français et la renaissance arabe: héritages croisés" by Manel Belhadj Ali @ugaeditions.bsky.social www.uga-editions.com/menu-princip... #Frenchromanticism #romanticism #Nahda #Arabicliterature #ArabAwakening #ArabEnlightenment #renaissancearabe #romantisme
June 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Our poem of the month is taken from „The Book of the Body“ by Lamia Makkadam, published by Dar Takween as part of the „Eshrakat“ series, supervised and introduced by poet Adonis...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
#poetry #arabicliterature 📚💙
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I was born a hidden body | literatur.review
Excerpts from "The Book of the Body"...
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May 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today's short story comes from Tunisia and is written by Hassan Marzougui, who takes a humorous look at the power of the spoken and written word and how old traditions can be reused to shape the truth...
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#shortstory #arabicliterature #arabliterature #tunisia 💙📚
Pregnancy cravings | literatur.review
A story from Tunisia
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May 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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In a personal essay, the Egyptian writer, journalist and filmmaker Alaa Hassanien, who lives in France, describes her painful longing for a city that has disappeared from her life...

#cairo #arabicliterature #egypt #diaspora #arabliterature #nostalgia #paris

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Nostalgia for vanished cities | literatur.review
My lost Cairo
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April 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM