Sunday Classics: The Fearless Zaynab Fawwaz (c. 1850-1914)
“When Zaynab Fawwaz died in early 1914, long obituaries appeared in Egypt’s newspapers: she was not forgotten in her own time.”
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New Bilingual ‘Barjeel Poetry Prize’ Launches Today
The Barjeel Art Foundation today launches the Barjeel Poetry Prize, an international two-language ekphrastic poetry competition that invites writers to respond to twenty works of Arab art from the 20th century.
#WiTMonth Bulaq: ‘Reporting While Arab and Female’
For the UK launch of Our Women on the Ground, an updated discussion of this collection of essays by women journalists from around the region, “Reporting While Arab and Female.”
Moroccan-Dutch Writer Naima El Bezaz Dies at 46
On August 7, Moroccan-Dutch author Naima El Bezaz took her own life. She was 46.
Women’s Writing in Arabic: The State of Translations to Spanish, French, Greek
Nadia Ghanem: “At any rate, both nationally and internationally, the literary production of women is neglected, of that i’ve no doubt, and I can’t explain it to myself given that Algerian women produce so much literature.”
#WiTMonth Poetry: Amina Saïd’s ‘I Live Here in the Basement of the Gare de Lyon’
“you come from somewhere else too he says / and the stones moan with absence / the earth stops turning / once yes once I also had a country”
#WiTMonth Conversations: Shahla Ujayli and Getting Raqqa Back Through Writing
“Raqqa is no longer the city I knew; I belong to a place that no longer exists. I try to get it back through writing.”
New Lit: Baya Mahieddine’s ‘The Great Great Big Bird’
“Le Grand Zoiseau” narrates the story of a little girl who wants to marry, and, seeing her mother deny her the right, she takes matters into her own magic hands.
Multigenre, Multi-author Reading August 12 to Raise Money for Beirut
“Funds raised will be distributed to a variety of on-the-ground organizations, including: the Unite Lebanon Youth Project, Beit Aftal Assomoud, Food Blessed, Iftar in a Box, Sesobel, Rebuild Beirut, Wa Taawanoo, and Egna Legna.”