🎉 Happy birthday to Jabra Ibrahim Jabra! 🎉
A novelist committed to reflecting on life's minutiae (and his mind's), which was revolutionary for an Arabic novelist writing mid-century.
His novel "In Search of Walid Masoud" opens:
"I wish there were an elixir for the memory…
Jabra Quote of the Week:
“I didn’t write in English because I lacked Arabic, and I was never exiled from my native tongue. No—I wrote in English as a challenge, to myself and to its native speakers.”
—Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#JabraIbrahimJabra#ArabicLiterature…
Born on this day 99 years ago: Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi. His landmark novel "Le Passé simple" (1954), among other works, continues to be studied in Morocco and beyond. The English translation by Hugh A. Harter was republished in 2020 by @nyrbclassics#DrissChraïbi
Arabic saying of the day: "more contagious than yawning" (aʿdā min al-thuʾabāʾ).
Quoted in many medieval Arabic sources, e.g., al-Jāḥiẓ, Ḥayawān, ed. Hārūn, 2:140.
My latest in @nybooks on The New Baghdad:
"It was the invasion of 2003 that truly disfigured the city. US aerial bombing turned buildings into cadaverous sentinels, which stood abandoned for years."
nybooks.com/online/2025/03…
Congratulations to Ahmed Saadawi @saadawi_a on his introduction to the novel "The Other Rooms" by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra!
Coming out in September from @DarfPublishers
ألف مبروك يا سيدي --
مقدمتك للرواية "الغرف الأخرى" لجبرا ابراهيم جبرا جاهزة وستطلع بشهر ٩ !!
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