#Ranya Abdelrahman

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National Book Award Finalists Include Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Two Translations from Arabic

OCTOBER 1, 2024 — This year’s list of finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards saw works by Arab authors in four of the five categories: Libyan-British author Hisham Matar’s My Friends was on the five-book shortlist for fiction; Palestinian-American poets Fady Joudah and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha were both finalists in the five-book-strong poetry category, Joudah for his […] and Khalaf Tuffaha for…

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Slipping off his spectacles, the old man glumly studied his shoes. “We’re trying to save classics, fables, myths, folktales, songs from bygone civilizations, recipes for herbal medicines, old stories of creation, Holy Books in their original editions, and the commentaries written about them. Those get priority.”

“Why?”

“Because they’re changing the past, and we need to protect our collective memory. That way, when this world falls, as it’s destined to do, we’ll have somewhere to start from. Do you remember what the book said? Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. We’re trying to save the past to make the future possible.” He paused. “But you clearly need to learn some history. You’re a typical citizen in Big Brother’s republic, stuck in a nation that’s slowly killing you, trapped in the whale’s belly, its stomach acid eating away at you, with no way to escape.”

“And how can anyone escape from a whale’s belly?” The Censor asked.

“By lighting a fire.”

Bothayna Al-Essa, The Book Censors Library. Restless Book 2024.

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Entangled in Meaning: Bruce J. Krajewski reviews THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Sawad Hussain & Ranya Abdelrahman

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5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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3 of 10 from Arabic on Longlist for National Book Award for Translated Literature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 — Three of the works longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature are literary works translated from Arabic. This year’s 10-book longlist was announced today. Leri Price is now a frequent National Book Award contender: This year, she’s on the longlist for her translation of Samar Yazbek’s Where the Wind Calls Home. She and Yazbek were also shortlisted in…

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Samira Azzam's 'On the Road'

Samira Azzam’s ‘On the Road’

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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INTRODUCING 'Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam'

INTRODUCING ‘Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam’

Today, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20% launch-week…

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Palestinian Prison Novel Wins 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

APRIL 28, 2024 — Judges today announced the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Basim Khandaqji’s قناع بلون السماء (A Mask, the Color of the Sky). Photo by Ranya Abdelrahman. The announcement was made in Abu Dhabi, on the eve of the city’s annual book fair, by this year’s chair of judges Nabil Suleiman. As Khandaqji is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison, the award…

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Samira Azzam's OUT OF TIME Among 7 Books Shortlisted for 2023 Palestine Book Awards

jULY 21, 2023 — Yesterday, organizers announced the seven-book shortlist of the 2023 Palestine Book Awards, and among them was ArabLit Books’ debut title: Samira Azzam’s Out of Time, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman. The prize, now in its twelfth year, honors and celebrates books published in English about Palestine and encourages authors and publishers to produce more books on Palestine. This…

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5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections

5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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Lit & Found: Samira Azzam's 'The Roc Flew Over Shahraban'

Lit & Found: Samira Azzam’s ‘The Roc Flew Over Shahraban’

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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A Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam's 'Out of Time'

A Literary Playlist for Samira Azzam’s ‘Out of Time’

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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Adania Shibli on Samira Azzam: 'Out of Time'

Adania Shibli on Samira Azzam: ‘Out of Time’

This week, we are launching our first community-supported translation: Ranya Abdelrahman’s translation of thirty-one selected stories by the great cult-classic Palestinian writer Samira Azzam. Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and elsewhere for making this happen. You can find the book on Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, UAE, etc.) and Gumroad. On Gumroad, the book it as a 20%…

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From BILA HUDOOD: An Excerpt of Charles Akl's 'Food for Copts'

From BILA HUDOOD: An Excerpt of Charles Akl’s ‘Food for Copts’

On Saturday, during the “BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere” panel titled “The Taste of Letters,” Charles Akl read from his 2017 book Food for Copts: During the discussion — which you can now watch on YouTube — Akl talked about why he decided to present the book as though it were full of recipes, while filling it with social and political observations, often wryly funny, about Egyptian…