M. Lynx Qualey

Oct 15, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Addie Leak |Areej Gamal |M. Lynx Qualey |Jordanian authors

When I first moved to Amman in 2016, I remember asking a new friend—a filmmaker—about the literary scene in Jordan. To my disappointment, he told me the future was in pictures, not books. No one read anymore; they were too impatient even to sit through full movies. He didn’t have many connections in the literary community because he wasn’t convinced there was much of one. Happily—though he might’ve been right about our shrinking attention spans—he was wrong about that.

Jun 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Yasmine Seale |Rania Mamoun |M. Lynx Qualey |Olivia Snaije

It’s a rare pleasure to be celebrating Marcia Lynx Qualey, to present her with the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, and to have the opportunity to say a few words about Marcia and the vital work she does. For as long as there’s been literature in Arabic, there have been poems of praise, known as madh, and on being asked to make these remarks today I was half-tempted to compose an ode to Marcia in that vein.

Jun 12, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | M. Lynx Qualey |Yasmine Seale |Sonia Nimr |Nina Perrotta

Thank you to Yasmine, who is a superstar in the firmament of Arabic-English literary translation and whose talent and finesse will continue to bring new communities of readers to Arabic literature in translation. And thank you of course to everyone at Words Without Borders, which is one of those few broad-based literary institutions in the US that has remained light in spirit, not fixed in place, but listening to its authors, its translators, its educators, and its readers.

May 24, 2024 | arablit.org | M. Lynx Qualey

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta in conversation with Ghada Dimashk Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9am GMT-7 San Francisco (Ohlone) 12pm EST Toronto (Tkaronto) 7pm GMT+3 Jerusalem/Beirut Livestream on Facebook and Youtube live from Beirut! [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/MELALibs |@MELALibs We are honored to host renowned scholar and historian, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, Founder and President of the Palestine Land Studies Center (PLSC) at the American University of Beirut, in conversation with Ghada...

May 23, 2024 | arablit.org | M. Lynx Qualey

Fiction Osama Al-Eissa Osama al-Eissa was shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, for his The Seventh Heaven of Jerusalem, awarded to fellow Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji​​ for his fourth novel, A Mask, the Color of the Sky.