Science Fiction in…Egypt
Apparently Juan Cole was not fibbing when he wrote, last summer, that Jordan plans a Star Trek Theme Park to attract tourists. This, Cole said, comes despite sci fi not weighing […]
February 2012
Call for Submissions (Creative & Critical) from Arab Women
Inanna Publications has sent out a call for its new anthology, scheduled for publication in the fall of this year. The book, called Min Timeh: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, […]
A Google Doodle for May Ziadeh
Tell me, O tell me! by the planets that are above Who is the heavenly herald who is the dove That thrilled to our midst from yon horizon and sea […]
Transmuting Poetry into Music: Two Days in NYC
On February 16, New York’s Columbia University will host the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz‘s “Symphony #3: Poems and Prayers,” set to open at the university’s Miller Theatre at 8 […]
What’s New at the Big Emirati Book Events of Spring 2012
If January is the month for the Cairo International Book Fair, and February is for Casablanca’s SIEL and Oman’s MIBF, then March resides squarely in the Emirates: The Emirates LitFest is set […]
Open Letter from Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, author of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted In Praise of Hate, is circulating an open letter that has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Albanian, […]
The Flowing River of Translation in Michael Cronin’s ‘Global Perspectives’
By Mona Elnamoury In a most fascinating lecture on globalization and translation on Sunday evening, Prof. Michael Cronin spoke about translation, not traditionally as a bridge, but as a river that runs […]
Should More U.S. Novelists Write About…Iraq?
In Guernica this month, Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie asks American writers, in “The Storytellers of Empire,” why, “Your soldiers will come to our lands, but your novelists won’t.” A part […]
Calls for Submissions: Translated Poetry, Fiction, Memoir
A number of recent calls-for-submission on New Pages, ALTA, and elsewhere have specifically mentioned a need for (your) translations. Drunken Boat, for instance, is looking for your translations of “Hypnopoeia, Hypnogeography, Hypnoecology: […]