Dardishi Festival’s First Digital Edition Set for June 18-27
“There will be talks, workshops, film screenings, a sound walk, and community-care sessions, with sliding-scale ticketing.”
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From the Archives: Muhammad Abdelnabi on Writing Queer Characters
“MA: To adopt the voice of any character is a challenge, but it’s easier if the character is closer to you. In my short stories, it was my voice, the character was like me. But for Hani Mahfouz our environment and social class is very different. I tried to forget about myself and speak like him.”
‘Hikikomori’: New Fiction by Mohamed Khalfouf
“On that day: I came home from school early. I didn’t find you, but I made an excuse for your absence, and sat, and waited.”
Friday Finds: A Discussion of Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s ‘Except for This Unseen Thread’ with Mona Kareem & Sinan Antoon
On May 27, Kareem joined poet and novelist Sinan Antoon — who has called Abdulqadir “a poet’s poet” — to discuss Except for This Unseen Thread.
Poet and Painter Ahmed Morsi’s First English Collection Forthcoming in September
“Art for me – whether my poetry or paintings – is an expression of my personal experiences; unbounded by time and place. I prefer not to make of art a utility and rather to allow it the utmost freedom to just be.”
From the Archives: Alexandra Chreiteh on Writing About Menstruation in Modern Standard Arabic
“And remember: talking about periods in fus7a is not insulting, because periods are not insulting!”
5 Writers: A Brief Look at Palestinian Literature in French
This short list is drawn off recommendations that came in through Twitter.
The Truth and the Story in ‘The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga’
The novel is a caper with a serious bent, an ecocritical story from a context where life was never anthropocentric enough to need “posthumanism.”
Join Us Tomorrow for the Inaugural May Ziadeh Salon and Book Pre-Launch
Who was May Ziadeh (1886-1941) and why was she an important part of Arabic letters? Tomorrow, we invite you to an introductory salon at which we’ll discuss and read from […]