{"id":3347,"date":"2020-08-03T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:20:04","slug":"arablit-arabic-literature-and-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/arablit-arabic-literature-and-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"ArabLit: Arabic Literature and Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"

ArabLit: Arabic Literature in Translation<\/a> is a blog launched in 2009 by Marcia Lynx Qualey, a freelance journalist living in Cairo who holds a Master Degree in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. In addition to maintaining ArabLit<\/a> M. Lynx Qualey writes about Arabic literature for a number of newspapers and journals:\u00a0<\/span> The Guardian<\/a>, Al Jazeera<\/a>, Your Middle East<\/a>, and AGNI\u00a0 Online,<\/a> a literary journal published by Boston University.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Over time, ArabLit<\/a> became a good source of daily news and views on Arab and Arabic literature and translation. As described in an interview by Claire Jacobson (for Asymptot<\/a>): “her [Qualey’s] coverage leaves no stone unturned, spanning a wide range of genres (from poetry to nonfiction, magical realism to science fiction) and countries (from Morocco to Iraq, Sudan to Syria).”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, ArabLit<\/a> won the prestigious Literary Translation Initiative Award at the London Book Fair<\/a>, and M. Lynx Qualey launched the BULAQ Podcast<\/a> <\/u>in collaboration with Ursula Lindsey<\/a>, from The Arabist<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> BULAQ focuses on contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa, and on literature (what does it do? Why does it matter? How does it relates to society, history and politics?). BULAQ is co-produced by Sowt,<\/a> a podcasting platform producing and distributing high-quality audio programs in Arabic based in Amman (Jordan) and launched in 2016.<\/p>\n

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In 2018, with support from fans and readers (53,208 followers in July 2020), Qualey was able to develop ArabLit<\/a> by launching new initiatives:<\/p>\n