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Alexa Firat

Contributor

Alexa Firat

Alexa Firat is a professor of Arabic, modern Arabic literature, and cinema courses at Temple University. Her scholarly writings and reviews can be found in print and online at Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Arabic Literature, The Oxford Handbook of the Arabic Novel, and more....

Her translations have appeared in The Book of Gaza and The Anthology of Saudi Arabian Literature. She translated Khalil Sweileh’s award-winning novel Writing Love.

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Articles by Alexa Firat

Mrs. Saniya’s Holiday

By Na’am al-Baz

Forget the admirer, Saniya. This guy will not take care of you.

Translated from Arabic by Alexa Firat

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Darkness

By Ibrâhim Samûel

Everything would have passed easily if it hadn't been for the moment of sudden darkness.

Translated from Arabic by Alexa Firat

Ahem

By Ibrâhim Samûel

After this silence reigned. A silence I had not heard the likes of a day since I entered the cell.

Translated from Arabic by Alexa Firat