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Editor Hala Salah Eldin Hussein |
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albawtaka@albawtaka.com |
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Phone: +2 010 159 2587 |


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Albawtaka Review |
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Arabic independent non-profit online quarterly concerned with translating English short fiction, Egypt |
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Albawtaka Review’s goal is to present a panoramic view of contemporary English literature - no one style is advocated over another. We are especially interested in works that take on humane issues by making the invisible seen, that give voice to the voiceless - works that impart message form through aesthetic experience. Writers’ colors, religions, gender and ethnicities do not determine our choices in any way. Albawtaka Review does not and will not adopt any political agendas whatsoever. In addition to showcasing celebrated authors, Albawtaka Review introduces the Arabic reader to authors he/she may have never encountered before, but who are weaving innovative work. Along with translating outstanding pieces of short fiction into impeccable Arabic language, Albawtaka Review sets another standard for the art of biography shedding light on the life histories of each of the writers being tackled. Albawtaka Review’s biographies tend to be more informative rather than critical. Albawtaka Review has been launched in April 2006 as a monthly review then it turned into a quarterly review starting from July 2007. It has published twenty-four issues presenting the biographies of forty-seven English-speaking writers and the translated texts of a novel and fifty-five English short stories. Albawtaka Review depends on some of the most prestigious anthologies of English short fiction such as The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses as well as some of the highly respectable reviews published in the world such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Timothy McSweeney's, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, StoryQuarterly, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, Callaloo, Other Voices, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Missouri Review.
Best Regards, Hala Salah Eldin Hussein Albawtaka Review Editor
The following authors have kindly granted Albawtaka Review permission to publish their short stories. Albawtaka Review and Arab readers are forever grateful for their support:
أدا أوديتشوكوو، "الحافلة الليلية" Adam Haslett, “Notes to My Biographer” آدم هاسليت, "ملحوظات لكاتب سيرتي" Aleksandar Hemon, "Blind Jozef Pronek" ألكساندر هيمون, "جوزيف برونيك الأعمى" Aleksandar Hemon, "Szmura’s Room" Alex Rose, "Ostracon" ألكس روز, "الكِسرة" Alexandra Marshall, "Child Widow" ألجزاندرا مارشل، "الطفلة الأرملة" Angela Pneuman, “All Saints Day” أنجيلا نيومان, "عيد كل القديسين" Benjamin Percy, "Refresh, Refresh" بينجيمِن بيرسي, "تحديث, تحديث" Binyavanga Wainaina, "Discovering Home" بينيافانجا واينينا, "اكتشاف الوطن" Charles D'Ambrosio, "The High Divide" تشارلز دامبروچيو, "الفاصل العالي" Charles Lambert, "The Scent of Cinnamon" تشارلز لامبرت, "أريج القرفة" Dan Chaon, “Five Forgotten Instincts” Dave Eggers, “Measuring the Jump” Doris Lessing, "A Mild Attack of Locusts" دوريس ليسينج, "هجوم معتدل للجراد" Edward P. Jones, "Old Boys, Old Girls" إدوارد بي. جونز, "فتيان عُجز، فتيات عجائز" Emily Rapp, "Legacy" إيميلي راب، "الإرث" Graham Joyce, "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" جرام جويس, "جندي عادي من جنود الملكة" Henrietta Rose-Innes, "Poison" James Lee Burke, "Jesus Out to Sea" جيمز لي بيرك, "يسوع يَخرج إلى البحر" Jess Row, “The Train to Lo Wu” جيس رو, "القطار المتجه إلى لو وو" جون بيجينيه, "وردة" Karl Iagnemma, “The Phrenologist's Dream” كارل يانْيما, "حلم عالِم فراسة الدماغ" Kevin Brockmeier, "The Brief History of the Dead" كيفين بروكمير, "التاريخ الموجَز للموتى" Kiana Davenport, “Bones of the Inner Ear” كيانا دافينبورت, "عظام الأذن الباطنية" Leonard Michaels, "Cryptology" Reprinted by kind Permission of Katharine Ogden Michaels ليونارد مايكلز, "دارسة الشفرات" Leonard Michaels, "Murderers" Will be reprinted by kind Permission of Katharine Ogden Michaels ليونارد مايكلز, "القتلة" Louise Erdrich, "The Painted Drum" لويز إردريك, "الطبلة ذات الرسم" Louise Erdrich, "Shamengwa" لويز إردريك, "شامينجوا" Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell, “Marie-Ange's Ginen” ماريلين فيبز-كيتيلويل, "جينين ماري-آنج" Marilyn Krysl, “The Thing Around Them” Mary Yukari Waters, "Rationing" ماري يوكاري وترز, "حصص الطعام" Mary Yukari Waters, "Egg-Face" ماري يوكاري وترز, "وجه البيضة" Nancy Reisman, “Tea” Nathan Englander, "Gilgul of Park Avenue" ناثان إنجلاندر, "تناسخ الأرواح في بارك أفينو" O. Henry, "The Ransom of Red Chief" Published with no prior permission as the author passed away in June 5, 1910. أو. هنري, "فدية زعيم الهنود الحمر" Pam Houston, "How to Talk to a Hunter" بام هيوستِن، "كيف تتحدثين إلى صياد" Parselelo Kantai, "You Wreck Her" بارسيليلو كانتاي Peter Turchi, "Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning" بيتر تورتشي, "ليل, شاحنة, مصباحان مضيئان" Sharon Pomerantz, “Ghost Knife” شارون باميرانتس, "السكين الشبح" Steven Heighton, "The Dead Are More Visible" ستيڤِن هايتِن, "الموتى أوضح" Susan Straight, "El Ojo de Agua" سوزان ستريت, "إل أوهو دي أجوا" T Cooper, "Swimming" تي كوبر, "السباحة" Woody Allen, "The Whore of Mensa"
Following is what Albawtaka Review has published so far: First Issue: April 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue1.htm “The Story” by Amy Bloom http://albawtaka.com/story.htm http://albawtaka.com/bloom.htm
“The fix” by Percival Everett http://albawtaka.com/everett.htm
“The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri http://albawtaka.com/lahiri.htm
“The Thing Around Them” by Marilyn Krysl http://albawtaka.com/thingaround.htm http://albawtaka.com/krysl.htm
Second Issue: May 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue2.htm “Allog” by Edith Pearlman http://albawtaka.com/allog.htm http://albawtaka.com/pearlman.htm
“Blind Jozef Pronek” by Aleksander Hemon http://albawtaka.com/hemon.htm http://albawtaka.com/pronek.htm
Third Issue: June 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue3.htm “The Bridegroom” by Ha Jin http://albawtaka.com/bridegroom.htm
“Devotion” by Adam Haslett http://albawtaka.com/devotion.htm http://albawtaka.com/haslett.htm
Forth Issue: July 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue4.htm “The Gilgul of Park Avenue” by Nathan Englander http://albawtaka.com/englander.htm http://albawtaka.com/gilgul.htm
“The Argument” by Rachel Kadish http://albawtaka.com/argument.htm http://albawtaka.com/kadish.htm
Fifth Issue: August 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue5.htm “Heaven Lake” by Jess Row
“Rationing” by Mary Yukari Waters http://albawtaka.com/waters.htm http://albawtaka.com/rationing.htm
Sixth Issue: September 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue6.htm “Bones of the Inner Ear” by Kiana Davenport http://albawtaka.com/davenport.htm http://albawtaka.com/bones.htm
“A Distant Episode” by Paul Bowles http://albawtaka.com/bowles.htm
Seventh Issue: October 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue7.htm First chapter of An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro http://albawtaka.com/ishiguro.htm
Eighth Issue: November 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue8.htm Second chapter of An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ninth Issue: December 2006 http://albawtaka.com/issue9.htm Third chapter of An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tenth Issue: January 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue10.htm Forth chapter of An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Eleventh Issue: February 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue11.htm “Ghost Knife” by Sharon Pomerantz http://albawtaka.com/ghostknife.htm http://albawtaka.com/pomerantz.htm
“Marie-Ange's Ginen” by Marilene Phipps http://albawtaka.com/ginen.htm http://albawtaka.com/phipps.htm
Twelfth Issue: March 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue12.htm “All Saints Day” by Angela Pneuman http://albawtaka.com/saints.htm http://albawtaka.com/pneuman.htm
“The Bees” by Dan Chaon http://albawtaka.com/chaon.htm
Thirteenth Issue: April 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue13.htm “Refuge in London” by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala http://albawtaka.com/jhabvala.htm
Fourteenth Issue: July 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue14.htm “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie http://albawtaka.com/alexie.htm
“The Brief History of the Dead” by Kevin Brockmeier http://albawtaka.com/briefhistory.htm http://albawtaka.com/brockmeier.htm
“The Party” by Elizabeth Berg
Fifteenth Issue: October 2007 http://albawtaka.com/issue15.htm
“A Rich Man” by Edward P. Jones http://albawtaka.com/richman.htm http://albawtaka.com/jones.htm
“Legacy” by Emily Rapp http://albawtaka.com/legacy.htm
“The Painted Drum” by Louise Erdrich http://albawtaka.com/erdrich.htm
Sixteenth Issue: January 2008 http://albawtaka.com/issue16.htm
“Cryptology” by Leonard Michaels http://albawtaka.com/michaels.htm http://albawtaka.com/cryptology.htm
“Christie” by Caitlin Macy http://albawtaka.com/christie.htm
“Shamengwa” by Louise Erdrich http://albawtaka.com/erdrich.htm
Seventeenth Issue: April 2008 http://albawtaka.com/issue17.htm
“Presence” by Arthur Miller http://albawtaka.com/miller.htm
“Child Widow” by Alexandra Marshall http://albawtaka.com/childwidow.htm http://albawtaka.com/marshall.htm
“Five Forgotten Instincts” by Dan Chaon http://albawtaka.com/instincts.htm http://albawtaka.com/chaon.htm
“Szmura’s Room” by Aleksandar Hemon http://albawtaka.com/hemon.htm http://albawtaka.com/szmura.htm
Eighteenth Issue: July 2008 http://albawtaka.com/issue18.htm
“Silver Water” by Amy Bloom http://albawtaka.com/silverwater.htm http://albawtaka.com/bloom.htm
“Old Boys, Old Girls” by Edward P. Jones http://albawtaka.com/oldboys.htm http://albawtaka.com/jones.htm
“The Train to Lo Wu” by Jess Row http://albawtaka.com/train.htm
Nineteenth Issue: October 2008 http://albawtaka.com/issue19.htm
“The Phrenologist's Dream” by Karl Iagnemma http://albawtaka.com/phrenologist.htm http://albawtaka.com/iagnemma.htm
“Measuring the Jump” by Dave Eggers http://albawtaka.com/measuring.htm http://albawtaka.com/eggers.htm
“Egg-Face” by Mary Yukari Waters http://albawtaka.com/waters.htm http://albawtaka.com/eggface.htm
Twentieth Issue: January 2009 http://albawtaka.com/issue20.htm
“Tea” by Nancy Reisman http://albawtaka.com/reisman.htm
“Notes to My Biographer” by Adam Haslett http://albawtaka.com/notes.htm http://albawtaka.com/haslett.htm
"Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning" by Peter Turchi http://albawtaka.com/night.htm http://albawtaka.com/turchi.htm
Twenty-First Issue: April 2009 http://albawtaka.com/issue21.htm
"The High Divide" by Charles D'Ambrosio http://albawtaka.com/highdivide.htm http://albawtaka.com/dambrosio.htm
"A Mild Attack of Locusts" by Doris Lessing http://albawtaka.com/mildattack.htm http://albawtaka.com/lessing.htm
"Refresh, Refresh" by Benjamin Percy http://albawtaka.com/refresh.htm http://albawtaka.com/percy.htm
Twenty-Second Issue: July 2009 http://albawtaka.com/issue22.htm
"Allegiance" by Aryn Kyle http://albawtaka.com/allegiance.htm
"The Safe" by Timothy Gautreaux http://albawtaka.com/gautreaux.htm
"The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen http://albawtaka.com/allen.htm http://albawtaka.com/mensa.htm
Twenty-Third Issue: October 2009 http://albawtaka.com/issue23.htm
"Night Bus" by Ada Udechukwu http://albawtaka.com/nightbus.htm http://albawtaka.com/udechukwu.htm
"Jesus Out to Sea" by James Lee Burke http://albawtaka.com/jesusouttosea.htm http://albawtaka.com/burke.htm
"How to Talk to a Hunter" by Pam Houston http://albawtaka.com/talktoahunter.htm http://albawtaka.com/houston.htm
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry http://albawtaka.com/ransom.htm http://albawtaka.com/henry.htm
Twenty-Forth Issue: January 2010 http://albawtaka.com/issue24.htm
"El Ojo de Agua" by Susan Straight http://albawtaka.com/straight.htm
"Spectators" by Valerie Laken http://albawtaka.com/spectators.htm http://albawtaka.com/laken.htm
"Rose" by John Biguenet http://albawtaka.com/biguenet.htm
"Poison" by Henrietta Rose-Innes http://albawtaka.com/poison.htm http://albawtaka.com/rose-innes.htm
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