مكتوب - أدب عربي بالعبرية
מכּתוּבּ - ספרות ערבית בעברית
Maktoob - Arabic literature In Hebrew

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 Two Tickets for Saffuriyeh
Saleem Albeik

Two Tickets for Saffuriyeh presents a young Palestinian voice that describes the third generation of refugeeism, the ref...

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بين الأنقاض: قصص من أيام الحرب
 Amid the Ruins
Sama Hassan

Amid the Ruins includes 36 brief pieces written by the Gaza writer and publicist Sama Hassan during the first year of th...

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قناديل ملك الجليل
 The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
Ibrahim Nasrallah

In the beginning of the 18th century, a young man of the common people began his ambitious undertaking: liberating his c...

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We aspire to rid Hebrew-language literature of its orientalist conceptions of both Arabs and Arab countries.

By implementing mutual sovereignty in translation, Maktoob seeks to combat the segregation

of Jews and Palestinians, and to dismantle the colonial power structure

between the two languages.

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A decade without Salman Natour

Marking ten years since his passing, we share the last lecture delivered by the writer and playwright Salman Natour, who was among the founders of the Maktoob series. He delivered these remarks at the conference ‘Ana Min Alyahud: On Jews, Mizrahiness, and the Arabic Language in Israel’ which was part of a broader project to promote the Arabic language in the academic sphere in Israel.

Elias Khoury and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani on Literature and Translation

A conversation between Lebanese writer Elias Khoury and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s editor-in-chief, who translated Khoury’s novels into Hebrew. The conversation took place at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in France on 12 March 2023; it offers a glimpse into their ongoing dialogue on literature and translation in colonial conflict zones.

Elias Khoury: In Memoriam

In this podcast of the Tel Aviv review, Prof. Yehuda Shenhav Shaharabani, editor in chief of Maktoob books, discusses the life and writing of the great Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury. Shenhav Shaharabani single-handedly translated ten of Khoury’s novels, and was a close personal friend of his.

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