Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Bleak Ink Sky’
2023-05-03
“I am done / Smoke rises from my heart.”Continue Reading
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Song for Bab Touma’
2023-04-26
“There, in the hollow of slick mud / That reminds me of hunger and vagrant lips”Continue Reading
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Stars and Rain’
2023-04-10
“You who have shot me like a bullet outside the world.”Continue Reading
Nakba Day: Free Palestinian Ebooks, Magazines, More Recommended Reading
2021-05-15
There are at least two digital Nakba Day events today; one with poet Najwan Darwish and another the kickoff events for Palestine Art Week: Also to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates Palestinians’ ongoing, 73-year resistance to expulsion from their homes and lands, Saqi Books is offering 20 Palestinian e-books fromContinue Reading
Translation’s Agitated Mirror
2022-03-16
“Perhaps each iteration of the poem is a supplicant, yearning for a connection with Ibn Arabi’s original. Or perhaps each one is a lover, longing to see itself in another. Perhaps they are both.”Continue Reading
Rabai al-Madhoun’s ‘Destinies’ Wins 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
2016-04-26
“Al-Madhoun, whose 2010 novel The Lady of Tel Aviv was also shortlisted for the IPAF, builds on the themes and characters of that earlier novel with Destinies.”Continue Reading
‘Experimental Works’ Chosen for 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Shortlist
2016-02-09
“Half have some previous IPAF connection: There are two books by authors who’ve formerly participated in IPAF nadwas, or workshops (Mohamad Rabie and Shahla Ujayli) and one formerly shortlisted novelist (Raba’i al-Madhoun, for his ‘The Lady from Tel Aviv’).”Continue Reading
A Tour of the 2016 Palestine International Book Fair: In Words and Pictures
2016-05-21
“Underscoring the continued problem was the marked absence of Palestinian writers and thinkers from Gaza, who though on the official program were not present at any of the week’s panels.”Continue Reading
‘We Are the Exception’: Translational Fidelity and the ‘Nights’
2016-03-22
“Is this parsimony a virtue?”Continue Reading
