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Abdelfattah Kilito
In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet’s Hadith and the…
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The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shall…
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Abdelfattah Kilito (Mohammed V University, Rabat Agdal)
A moving, memoiristic short-story collection by a venerated Moroccan writer about growing up during a time of cultural upheaval.
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language
The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism. Kilito’s story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of…
Revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. Kilito brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna…
al-Hariri
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature…
Maqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Hariri, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures…
