ALTA posted this call for submissions from Transference Poetry Journal: Transference, a new journal published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University, invites submissions of […]
On Monday, October 8, Banipal magazine is hosting an event at the Birmingham Book Festival: “The new Libya – its writers and bloggers”: The writers — Ghazi Gheblawi, Mohamed Mesrati, Giuma Bukleb — were all featured […]
I’m sure there are more gems online; these are a few I’ve run across (or been run across). You can always check QISASUKHRA for more: POETRY Rachida Madani’s “The Second Tale: […]
I would, of course, be there in a heartbeat. You should go just to lord it over me.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have missed the opportunity to declare October “Palestinian Literature Month,” (there were other things going on, I guess), but nonetheless, the month is happily crammed with Palestinian novels, poetry, films, retrospectives, and other events. The more you can get to, the better.
Syrian novelist and journalist Samar Yazbek spoke at Harvard University as part of her recently concluded US tour. Yazbek talked about the situation in Syria and her new memoir Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution. Neila Columbo was there:
This shrunken image doesn’t really help, does it. You’ll have to download the PDF. But basically: October 4-8 in venues around Beirut: Elias Khoury, TokTok editors, short films, “humor in dark […]
An outpouring of artistic productions — like songs, graffiti, drawings, dramatic sketches and also virtually on the internet in the form of videos, animations — filled public spaces. This outpouring of artistic expressions in the internet and in public squares showed the official cultural structures as insufficient and unable to live up to the situation.
This engagement with Maged Zaher’s The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me appeared in the print edition of the Egypt Independent: Maged Zaher’s latest collection of poems, “The Revolution Happened and You […]
