Amjad Nasser, 1955-2019
According to multiple reports, Nasser died Wednesday. He was 64.
mlynxqualey
About mlynxqualey
Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
6 Winners of the 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
Winners of the Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature were announced today in six categories — best book, best text, best illustrations, best production, best wordless picture book, and best young adult — on the opening day of the Sharjah International Book Fair.
New Collection of Adonis’s Poems To Be Released in Chinese Before Arabic
According to the Chinese news agency, the Chinese translation of Osmanthus is made up of 50 poems “that express the poet’s affections for China’s natural scenery, history, and culture, according to the publisher Yilin Press.”
Robyn Creswell on Poetic Modernism in Beirut and Deprovincializing Comparative Literature
“But I was able to find out that some early issues of that magazine did receive funding from the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and that was unexpected.”
A Wartime Novel That’s Tender, Charming, and Donkeyphilic
“So Um Qasem decides to get up before dawn and make off with a donkey called “Good Omen,” who is both her trusty steed and her Sancho Panza.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Two Lines’ Looking for Arabic Poetry in Translation
The deadline is November 18, 2019.
Bulaq 37: ‘Disappearing Palestinians’
On Episode 37, Ursula Lindsey & M Lynx Qualey talked about two festivals (one long-established, one brand new) that celebrate Palestinian literature; an author who was penalized for supporting BDS; and a book that asks the question: What would happen if Palestinians simply disappeared?
Friday Finds: Najwa Bin Shatwan’s ‘The Reeling City’
The story begins when the narrator enters Colonel Hamid’s office.
School District Using Coelho’s ‘Alchemist’ To Teach ‘Middle-Eastern Customs and Practices’?
The Alchemist, according to the Columbia County Board of Education, “addresses the literary reading standards by offering .. an under-represented, middle-Eastern world perspective. … Students may participate in analytical conversations regarding middle-Eastern customs and practices.”