The blog features ongoing research, unfinished projects, fragments, and other miscellany that I might revisit, expand or leave as it is.
Maqamat with a Spin: Emile Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
A review, of Emile Habibi's second novel Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil or The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimst (1974)
The Searing Sun: Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun
A review of Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun (1960)
Ghassan Kanafani: To Fayza
This is a translation of one of the letters that Palestinian author and freedom fighter, Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972), exchanged with Ghada al-Samman (al-Samman would later publish these letters under, 'Ghassan al-Kanafani's Letters to Ghada al-Samman, 1992).