For the 2025 Arabic Literature Tour, Moroccan author Yassin Adnan and US translator Alexander Elinson present the novel Hot Maroc, longlisted for the IPAF in 2017 and published in translation by Syracuse University Press in 2021. Darkly comedic, Hot Maroc is told through the eyes of the hapless Rahhal Laâouina, aka the Squirrel. Painfully shy, not that bright, and not all […]
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Shahla Ujayli is a Syrian-born writer and professor of Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Aleppo and the American University in Jordan. She has written 2 short-story collections and 4 novels, with Summer with the Enemy and A Sky So Close to Us receiving a shortlist for the IPAF. Shahla and her translator, Michelle Hartman, toured college and universities in
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Shahad Al Rawi, the Iraqi author of The Baghdad Clock, and her translator, Luke Leafgren, toured colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S. Here they are pictured at Amherst College, where they read from the novel in both Arabic and English and discussed their experiences with writing and translation. The Baghdad Clock won the Edinburgh First Book
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