Haji Jabir

Feb 20, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Haji Jabir |Sawad Hussain

Youssif Kamal lends his flexible baritone to this ambitious novel about the universal feeling of wanting to belong. He becomes the ever shifting Dawoud, also known as David, Adal, and Dawit, depending on where he is living and trying to fit in. Kamal's narration is smooth and well paced, almost to the point of a silkiness that reflects the more sensual moments of the plot. Listeners will be entranced by this performance.

May 4, 2023 | asymptotejournal.com | Haji Jabir |Sawad Hussain |Marcia Lynx Qualey

Black Foam by Haji Jabir, translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain and Marcia Lynx Qualey, Amazon Crossing, 2023In a 2019 interview with Marcia Lynx Qualey for Arab Lit, Haji Jabir gives a fascinating response when asked whether he writes “political novels”: “I write about the people of my country, because they are a persecuted and suffering people, and so my novels come in this manner.

Feb 3, 2023 | wsj.com | Haji Jabir

Selected by Haji Jabir, the author, most recently, of the novel ‘Black Foam.’By Haji JabirFeb. 3, 2023 11:25 am ETThe DrowningBy Hammour Ziada (2022)1. In his latest novel, “The Drowning,” translated into English by Paul G. Starkey, the Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada expertly weaves together several complex stories. He breaks up their chronological order without losing the logic of narration, describes chaos while advancing the story line without dropping a single thread.