New in Translation: Ahmed Abdul Hussein’s ‘Al-Andalus Square’
“I am a candlestick that argues about the power of darkness inside you, / in your many holes.”
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Sunday Submissions: ‘Strange Horizons’ Call for Palestinian Speculative Fiction
They are open for submissions through January 31, 2021.
Winners in First-ever Barjeel Poetry Prize Hail from Palestine, Nigeria, UK, US, Egypt, and Beyond
“The winners and runners-up live in Nigeria, Lebanon, the US, Russia, the UK, Egypt, Palestine, and the UAE, with further origins in Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, and beyond. The youngest winner is 15-year-old Batool Abu Akleen, a student in Gaza.”
‘Hara Hotel’: On Centering the Western Narrator and Stories About Syrian Refugees
“It reminds us of the colonial narratives advancing how the colonized people are in desperate need of saving.”
Naguib Mahfouz Day: New Reads and More for the Author’s 109th
“More from 2020 in the afterlife of Naguib Mahfouz.”
Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘My Mother’s Glasses, a Tunisian Prison Memoir’
“It was Friday, May 9, 1975. We had just ended a hunger strike a few days earlier.”
Afro, Indigenous, and Palestinian Futurisms: Writing Across Space and Time
This is where M. Asli Dukan has arrived in her own work, as she moves away from the label of Afrofuturism towards a more unifying vision, what she has started to call “abolitionist futurisms.”
Egyptian Sci Fi Novelist Nabil Farouk Dies at 64
“His daughter, Reham Farouk, announced that he had died of a heart attack.”
‘Heaven is Not with Us’: War Criminals or Victims?
“But when it comes to war crimes in civil wars, what is judged as sinful, and what heroic?”