Marcia Lynx Qualey
Qualey is founding editor of the translation-community website ArabLit, which won a 2017 London Book Fair prize. The project has since expanded to ArabKidLitNow!, the ArabLit Story Prize, and the ArabLit Quarterly magazine. MLQ is also co-host of the popular BULAQ podcast, and she writes regularly for a variety of publications. Her translation of Sonia Nimr's Wondrous Journeys in Amazing Lands is forthcoming from Interlink this fall.
Raqqa, at the center of the universe
16 August 2020
In Shahla Ujayli's latest novel, Raqqa is a summer’s dream: briefly beautiful, and then gone. Yet it is also preserved in memory.
