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Lit & Found: 'The Gifts of Movement,' a Talk with Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous

In “The Gifts of Movement: Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age,” Algerian novelists Said Khatibi and Amara Lakhous talk with scholar-translator Alex Elinson about writing and migration, in which Lakhous says: “I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.” You can watch on YouTube:

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Translator Alex Elinson on Novelist Youssef Fadel's Shift Away from Colloquial

Translator Alex Elinson on Novelist Youssef Fadel’s Shift Away from Colloquial

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Looking for Ghosts: On Said Khatibi's 'End of the Sahara'

You can also read an excerpt of the novel in Alex Elinson’s translation and listen to an episode of the BULAQ podcast that features novelist Said Khatibi, talking about this book. By M Lynx Qualey Said Khatibi was three years old in the autumn of 1988, when the events in his latest novel take place. His literary murder mystery, The End of the Sahara, is mostly set in the central Algerian city of…

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Writing Their Way Out: 16 Prison Narratives by Arab Women

By ArabLit Staff with Alexander Elinson Yesterday, we published an excerpt of Moroccan author and activist Khadija Marouazi’s 2000 prison novel History of Ash, which was published this month in Alex Elinson’s English translation. Although there are a range of powerful prison memoirs by Arab women, there are fewer prison novels. Today, we have a short list of prison narratives by women across the…

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On Translating the Linguistic Diversity of 'Hot Maroc'

On Translating the Linguistic Diversity of ‘Hot Maroc’

Next month, Yassin Adnan’s novel Hot Maroc is finally set to appear in Alexander E. Elinson’s English translation: Yassin Adnan began writing his novel Hot Maroc at a writers’ residency on the Cote D’Azur in March 2011, soon after he’d run into trouble with online trolls. Adnan invented his protagonist, Rahhal Laâouina, imagining that he would take him through a short story that he would finish…

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Friday Finds: Excerpt of Youssef Fadel's 'A Shimmering Red Fish'

Friday Finds: Excerpt of Youssef Fadel’s ‘A Shimmering Red Fish’

A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me — set for an October 1 release  — is Youssef Fadel’s tenth novel, his third translated to English:

A Shimmering Red Fish, translated by Alex Elinson, is the final book in a trilogy set around historical events of twentieth-century Morocco. The first two were A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me (tr. Jonathan Smolin) and A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me(tr.…

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On Publication Day for 'Shimmering Red Fish,' 5 of Youssef Fadel's Favorites

On Publication Day for ‘Shimmering Red Fish,’ 5 of Youssef Fadel’s Favorites

Today is publication day for Youssef Fadel’s A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me, in Alex Elinson’s translation:

This completes Fadel’s trilogy of Hassan II-era historical novels in English translation: A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me (tr. Elinson), set around palace politics in 1980s Morocco; A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me (tr. Jonathan Smolin), set around a woman in 1990, who is searching…

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On Translating the Linguistic Diversity of 'Hot Maroc'

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Last summer, Yassin Adnan’s acclaimed Hot Maroc was published in Alexander E. Elinson’s English translation. In the fall, an excerpt appeared in ArabLit Quarterly’s FOOTBALL issue, along with an essay by Adnan, “Matters of National Football.” Today, we re-run Tugrul Mende’s conversation with translator Alex Elinson. * By Tugrul Mende Yassin Adnan began writing Hot Maroc at a writers’…