ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY

This excerpt appeared in the FOOTBALL issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which you can still get in print and

JULY 8, 2026 — The Markaz Review today announced the launch of its first-ever literary prizes for “emerging and established writers from the SWANA (Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia) region and its diasporas” either written in or translated into English.

Awards for first and second place will be $3,000 a...

For our Fall 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, we ran several different football chants from countries across the region.

As editors Nashwa Nasreldin and Leonie Böttiger wrote: “The old adage that football is ‘just a game’ has never been true for its fans, and the saying falls particularly flat in recent years, when football fans...

Below is one of the four football pieces that appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, with an introduction by translator Daniel Behar. You can still get the issue in

JULY 6, 2026 — The Azhar Writing Prize — a prize for new, unpublished work in English by Arab writers — today announced its first-, second- and third-place winners, as well as one hon...