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"Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none." Beneath the Howl of Hunger — Alaa Alqaisi

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We'll have an excerpt of Georgia Makhlouf's novel -- one of the eight finalists -- coming soon in @MishkaMM1's translation.

“Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears tuned to the sound that will send us running. Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none.” @AlaaQAlQaisi

Today on ArabLit, classic short fiction from 1930s Egypt. arablit.org/2025/07/23/sum…

Yes! The End of The Sahara is due for publication in the UK in February 2026 and in the US in March 2026.

This is, as one of the would-be contributors puts it, “incredibly shameful.”

Read this essay and take action. How much time is left for our writers & translators? arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…

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“Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none.” Please take the time to read every word of this transmission from Gaza, sent by Palestinian translator, writer, and researcher Alaa Alqaisi

"And yet I persist. I speak. I write. Because silence would be a deeper form of defeat. Testimony, even if cracked and uncertain, is the only offering I can still give. To keep it locked inside would be to let this hunger consume even the voice that names it."

Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."

Read this: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

Read Alaa's "Beneath the Howl of Hunger." Read it again. Share it. Translate it. Poster it. arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…

And soon accolades & awards for the English translation (by Alex Elinson, forthcoming @bitterlemonpub) as well. bitterlemonpress.com/products/the-e…

But on 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher cited “a number of complex issues” theguardian.com/education/2025…