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M. Lynx Qualey

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M. Lynx Qualey

Marcia Lynx Qualey is an editor, writer, occasional translator, and speaker who focuses on Arabic literature and translation. She has a special love of Arabic literature for young readers. She founded ArabLit (which won a “Literary Translation Initiative” award at the 2017 London Book Fair) in 2009 and has since helped it become a small publishing cooperative....

She reviews for various magazines and newspapers and has translated a handful of novels, including the Palestine Book Award–winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, by Sonia Nimr, and Haya Saleh’s Wild Poppies, shortlisted for this year’s GLLI Award. She was shortlisted for the Banipal prize for the first two novels in Sonia’s Thunderbird trilogy. She is also a cofounder of the “WorldKidLit” initiative and cohosts the BULAQ podcast, which explores literature of the Maghreb and Mashreq. She is currently working on a collaboration with Majalla 28 in Gaza and demands an end to genocide.

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Articles by M. Lynx Qualey

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From left to right: Salwa Shakhshir, Miranda Beshara, and Mohamed Nabulsi.
The Present and Future of Arabic Kid Lit: A Conversation
By M. Lynx Qualey
There are many great Arabic children’s books that haven’t reached their young readers yet.
Thunderbird
By Sonia Nimr
“It seems that Noor set fire to another student’s backpack.”
Translated from Arabic by M. Lynx Qualey
The Appearance of the Dragon, and His Disappearance
By Hooda El Shuwa
Khidr stepped out onto the street and was filled with an extraordinary horror.
Translated from Arabic by M. Lynx Qualey
We Usually Ask Literature to Be Humanizing Only When It’s from “Over There”
By M. Lynx Qualey
Our dignified survival as a species probably depends on finding ways to listen to each other.
Warning: Arabic Humor, Makes Frequent Stops
By M. Lynx Qualey
Humor has that paradoxical quality of being absolutely universal while also being deeply embedded in linguistic wordplay and sociocultural zeitgeist.
The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Arabic Literature and Exile
By M. Lynx Qualey
Exile has been one of the places where Arabic literature has been able to communicate most strongly across linguistic borders.
From the Abu Dhabi Book Fair
By M. Lynx Qualey
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (April 30–May 5) has just wrapped up its seventh year. As in the past, the fair was an enormous undertaking, with school field trips, dozens of author events…
Crossing Language Boundaries in Palestine’s Emerging-Writer Workshops
By M. Lynx Qualey
PalFest – the Palestine Festival of Literature – took place this year in the last week of May. It was the festival’s sixth year and, as in other years, it flew in more than a dozen artists…