R A Y A https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Larissa Bender on translating the personal accounts in Yazbek’s Gaza book: ‘Far more harrowing than anything I have translated before’ “This is above all a book about humanity“ – a review of Yazbek’s book in Germany The Arabic Audiobook: Hopes and Challenges Strawberry-Spotted Handkerchief The wind’s abode Dead Fish Breathing Lemon Peels Gaza residents: Your presence is a danger to your life “Everything is red: Stories of an Ongoing Genocide” May vanishes Death is hard work Samar Yazbek “I fight against lies, violence, and cruelty” Khalil El Rez’s novel “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” : An astonishing weaving of the novel’s fabric with the spindle of love “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” by Khalil Al-Rez: “Masterfully structured plot” – Al modon ”Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” by Khalil Al-Rez: “Powerful and creative talent” “gift for storytelling” “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: A narrative in the spirit of Shakespeare Khalil El-Rez’s “Strawberry spotted handkerchief” is “Spellbinding” — Al Mayadeen Khalil Al-Rez to Almodon: “My works are not bound by their real-time settings” Tahir ANNOUR “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: A Novel between Shakespeare and Khalil el-Rez, “distinct within the Arabic literary landscape” Samar Yazbek’s Op Ed in Le Monde “The Syrian Alawites are subjected to a massive collective punishment” “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: “Unprecedented” writing, a “novel whose hallmark is singularity and transcendence” Le Monde “The most deeply moving aspect is the echo of comparable suffering from one testimony to another” – about Yazbek’s “Gaza residents: Your presence is a danger to your life” Deeper Down the Well IBRAHIM Mayada Reflections on Samar Yazbek and Syrian literature: Memory, testimony, and survival – “reshaping the Arab literary field as a whole” Mansoura Ez-Eldine’s “Deeper down the well”, between history and imagination – ArabLit “Deeper down the well” by Mansoura Ez-Eldine: “A real gem”- Qantara “Exquisite artistic detail and careful construction of the novel’s aesthetic world” — Annour’s “Symphony of the south” “Symphony of the south” by Tahir Annour: A “mature artistic style” Tahir Annour’s “A symphony of the south”: “beautifully poetic narrative language” and a “storytelling layered with surprise and wonder” “Deeper down the well” by Mansoura Ez-Eldine: A maze “meticulously woven in polished language”, and a narrative given “structural cohesion through almost invisible threads” Novelist Tahir Annour: In Chad, Arabic Poetry Thrives While the Novel Struggles Mayada Ibrahim wins the inaugural round of PEN Presents x International Booker Prize! Symphony of the South Authors “I have never documented such a way of killing people”: Samar Yazbek gives voice to survivors of the genocide in Gaza Mansoura Ez Eldine’s “Deeper down the well”: Childhood imaginations and their hopes HILALI Husam “A novel of petrifying acuity” “A masterpiece” – Le Journal du Dimanche’s review of Douaihy’s Poison in the air ALSAIF Manar A Man Like Me – Children of the ghetto 3 Khalil Alrez Discusses His Novel A Sleepless Giraffe in Damascus in an Exclusive Interview: “Not a symbol – just a giraffe!” Stella Maris – Children of the ghetto 2 The Markaz Reviews Ezeldin’s The orchards of Basra: “a layered and evocative” “work of art” Books Samar Yazbek, writer: “The war in Gaza is the most dreadful, the most cruel, the most savage war.” Translators “Stunning offering of spirituality” – Insightful review of Yazbek’s “Where the wind calls home” by Asymptote Khalil Alrez’s The Sleepless Giraffe of Damascus, “a work that drifts between reality and imagination from one of contemporary Arabic literature’s most distinctive voices” Home Page