Chip Rossetti

Arabic literature and translation, book publishing, languages (dead and living). Editorial Director, Library of Arabic Literature. Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania.

[Chip Rossetti @Chip_Rossetti]

@AmericanMaghreb @LibraryArabLit @TheMarkazReview Thank you, Kevin. It was, I hope, a good sendoff for what was an excellent series!

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@hudahamed81 @DarAlAdab مبروك!

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@MAOrthofer Good luck with the move, Michael!

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@benmoores2 I'd add the beautifully restored Rabati Castle in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia.

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Many thanks to @arablit and Tugrul Mende for this interview with me and @hudahamed81 on her novel The Cinderellas of Muscat, now out in English from Banipal Books!

https://t.co/EDTb8k9sr5

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I'm delighted that The Cinderellas of Muscat by @hudahamed81, is now coming out in English from Banipal Books. It was a real pleasure to translate this wonderful novel!

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NEW FROM BANIPAL BOOKS

In her novel Omani author Huda Hamed confronts the challenges that people, particularly women, face as Muscat's modernisation replaces old ways of living in this enchanting and modern take on the Cinderella tale. A group of women friends become jinn themselves in the guise of Cinderellas

During the modernisation of Muscat, its people’s spirits seemed to harden and dry up, and one day the female jinn just disappeared. Where did they go to? Have they died, are they in hiding after losing out to electricity and cement, to air conditioners and televisions? Has life lost its playfulness and joy without the transformational powers of the jinn? Are life’s sweet moments of pleasure and delight no more, now the people are weighed down with daily chores, boring work, and all the routines apparently necessary for modern life?
It seemed so, until Zubayda and seven friends, all mothers and wives overburdened with one thing after another, decide they have to somehow recover the powers of the lost female jinn. Zubayda collects together their vivid stories, revealing secrets until then suppressed, as on one special night every month they transform into Cinderellas and meet together in Chef Ramon’s restaurant on Muscat’s beach front.
In her novel Omani author Huda Hamed confronts the challenges that people, particularly women, face as Muscat's modernisation replaces old ways of living in this enchanting and modern take on the Cinderella tale. A group of women friends become jinn themselves in the guise of Cinderellas. Their individual stories reveal their innermost thoughts, thoughts they don't and can't share with their husbands and other family members or even neighbours. The stories of the Cinderellas unwittingly show the existence of two worlds, the public one with all its social restrictions, societal taboos, which they live with daily, and their own secret, untellable one in which they can break free and speak aloud their true opinions and feelings when they become the jinn Cinderellas.

https://t.co/Ig82qi0HiF

[Chip Rossetti @Chip_Rossetti]

@tmende_tugrul Thank you for the mention! I hope you liked it!

[Library of Arabic Literature @LibraryArabLit]

We're delighted to be sponsoring the ALTA47 conference, which starts today!
Our editorial director Chip Rossetti (@chip_rossetti) will be there, and LAL will be hosting a coffee break on Sunday, October 27, 10:15-10:45. If you'll be in Milwaukee this weekend, come say hi!

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🗓️ [UPCOMING EVENT]

Fresh from publishing our double summer fiction issue, The Markaz Review presents five seasoned translators who work to find the best English version of original writing in Arabic: Chip Rossetti (@chip_rossetti), Nada Faris (@thenadafaris), Zia Ahmed, Rana Asfour (@bookfabulous) and Lina Mounzer (@warghetti).

Join us online for this roundtable discussion on the theme of the art of translation, with all its challenges and rewards, on Thursday, August 1st at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET.

🎟️ RSVP now: https://t.co/k5iedM0QUV

#themarkazreview #tmr43 #summerfiction #latestissue #fiction #translation #roundtablediscussion #upcomingevent

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An eerie story by @DJubaili on Mosul under ISIS, told from a doll's point of view, in the @TheMarkazReview new summer fiction issue. https://t.co/0oikDbQe8E

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📣 [NEW ISSUE]

Our annual summer double fiction issue, TMR 43, is now live!

This issue features work from: @SalahBadis2, @sallyhad3, Hammoud Saud, Ahmed Zia, Mohamed Farag, @thenadafaris, @KarolineKamel, Ranya Abdelrahman, Bel Parker, @odai_alzoubi_, @ziadallal, Stanko Uyi Sršen, @natashatynes, @bookfabulous, Abdullah Nasser, Nora Nagi, @poupehmissaghi, @DJubaili, @chip_rossetti, Tarek Abi Samra, @warghetti, Fawzi Zebian, @grungyflaneur, @QaisAkbarO, Haidar Al Ghazaly, @naasius, @our_katkoot, @NektariaAna and @AhmedNajiTW.

🔗 Dive in here: https://t.co/wlbwemSbaM

#themarkazreview #tmr43 #fiction #doubleissue #summerfiction #newissue

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@JadTheFirst_ @oliviasnaije @arablit Yes, please do write to Shurooq at that email about where you can get a copy! Thank you, @oliviasnaije !

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@oliviasnaije @arablit Thank you, all, for your kind words about the novel! The publisher told me they are sorting out the distribution issue now. In the meantime, please write to Shurooq Kamal ([email protected]) for details about how to purchase copies!

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Thank you, @arablit , for running this excerpt from Rose's Diaries today!
https://t.co/6OhpgVqVAq

[olivia snaije @oliviasnaije]

On Translating a Novel of Might-have-beens in '60s Dubai https://t.co/w136cdSgjP via @arablit @Chip_Rossetti check it out on the LEILA-arabicliterature website too!

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If you're at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair today, Reem al-Kamali and I will be speaking about her novel Rose's Diaries at the NLA stand (11G05) at 5pm! https://t.co/NvOHJCsPnS

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Join us on Mon, Apr 29 @ 12pm for our seminar by David Larsen (Senior Fellow @LibraryArabLit), “The Bend in Arabic: Metaphors to Lean By in the Poetry of Jamil Buthaynah” moderated by @Chip_Rossetti (rescheduled from Feb)

RSVP: https://t.co/fjKexQ5yko

*Open to NYUAD & by invite

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في جميع مكتبات دولة الإمارات: المجرودي وكينوكونيا وبوردرز...

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@AlkmalyRym If you'd like to buy a copy, you can order one here: https://t.co/swCp2OkFkk

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Nice to see Reem al Kamali's Rose's Diaries out in the world (and face out on the shelf, too)!