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In Translation: Blurring the Line Between the Real and the Ludicrous
Blurring the Line Between the Real and the Ludicrous On Translating Belal Fadl’s ‘Um Mimi’ Osama Hammad in Conversation with Tugrul Mende This December 15, Dar Arab is set to publish Belal Fadl’s The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Shari The Adulterer, brought to English by first-time translator Osama Hammad. This darkly humorous coming-of-age is set in a grittily, over-the-top, darkly funny…
Forthcoming December 2025: Satire and Contemporary Arab Theater in Translation
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know. The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer by Belal Fadl, translated by Osama Hammad (Dar Arab, December 15, 2025) From the…
Tracing a Line, from Arwa to Enayat
From Arwa Saleh to Enayat al-Zayat: A Society that Reproduces its Women’s Disappointments By Moaaz Muhammad Translated by Osama Hammad Browsing the histories of those who died by suicide is one of my favorite hobbies. It’s like visiting dark places linked to death and crises. I don’t read about them to find an answer to the complicated question of suicide. I do it to look at those who committed…
Ragaa Elish: 'Don’t Be Born Ugly'
Yesterday, we ran an essay by Moaaz Muhammad, translated by Osama Hammad, about the legendary Egyptian author Ragaa Elish: “Ragaa Elish vs Society’s Demons.” Today, Osama brings us the preface of Ragaa Elish’s signature Don’t Be Born Ugly. Don’t Be Born Ugly By Ragaa Elish Translated by Osama Hammad Preface These pages are about the strangest problem in my life: ugliness. Imagine the weirdest…
Ragaa Elish vs Society’s Demons
Here, in an essay that originally appeared in Ultrasawt, Moaaz Muhammad explores the literature of legendary Egyptian writer Ragaa Elish, who declared in his short-story collection: Don’t Be Born Ugly. Tomorrow, we have an excerpt of Don’t Be Born Ugly in Osama Hammad’s translation. Ragaa Elish vs Society’s Demons: Self-Alienation and the Illness of the Collective By Moaaz Muhammad Translated by…
New Fiction by Ameer Hamad: 'All That’s Left to Him'
New Fiction by Ameer Hamad: ‘All That’s Left to Him’
By Ameer Hamad Translated by Osama Hammad His father told him that the building committee had held a meeting, and that they’d decided to forbid the children from playing in front of the building. The boy was afraid of his father. If his mother had given him the news, he would have screamed until morning. But now, he acted as if the matter didn’t concern him. –I’m all grown up now, he said. I…
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