Marcia Lynx Qualey

Qualey

Qualey is a writer whose primary focus is Arabic literature and its translation. She publishes in The Guardian, Qantara, The Chicago Tribune and on the daily blog she edits, www.arablit.org.

The battle of identity & truth in No One Knows Their Blood Type

Book Club: In 'No One Knows Their Blood Type' Jumana grapples with life after learning her Palestinian father may not be her biological parent

16 October, 2024

The Arabic Shakespeares: Subversive, political, and entertaining

Arabic adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have been popular since the 1800s, but they differ from the original in key aspects, scholars and translators say.

23 April, 2016

The literature of forgetting and remembering in Iraq

Novels on Iraq have taken dramatically different approaches to the subject. Iraqis are producing a body of 'literature as resistance', dwarfed by an American ‘embedded literature’, writes Marcia Lynx Qualey.

12 April, 2015

Women of Karantina: Egypt's female crime bosses

Review: Nael Elthoukhy's latest futuristic novel is part slap-stick, part social criticism and centres on Egypt's female crime bosses in 2064.

14 February, 2015

A love in letters

One of the twentieth century's great love stories came to an end with the passing of Radwa Ashour on Sunday. The novelist's relationship to her husband, poet Mourid Barghouti, has been well documented though.