Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin’s book Accidental Gods will be published this fall. (May 2021)

The Rules of the Confidence Game

The Book of Charlatans provides an unusual glimpse into the street life of medieval Islamic societies rarely captured in more elevated Arabic literary sources.

The Book of Charlatans

by Jamal al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari, edited by Manuela Dengler and translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

May 27, 2021 issue

Laure Ghorayeb: Untitled, 1968. Ghorayeb was a frequent contributor of poetry and translations to Shi‘r, the magazine founded by Adonis and Yusuf al-Khal in 1957 in Beirut.

How Arabic Made It New

City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut

by Robyn Creswell

November 7, 2019 issue

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