‘Words for the Silenced’: Coming to London
The event, which starts at 7 p.m., will include readings, video, music, and a live performance of new work by Amir Darwish.
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New Library-recommendation Project: 10 from Emily Drumsta
ArabLit kicks off this project as we kicked off the “Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation” series, with Brown University’s Emily Drumsta.
Support for Publisher and Bookseller Khaled Lutfi, Sentenced to 5 Years
“We, the undersigned, hereby declare our full solidarity with our librarian colleague and publisher Khaled Lutfi.”
5 Books by Etel Adnan, Born on This Day
“Time and fog escape our grasp.” -Etel Adnan, #BOTD.
ACO: Now More than 10,000 Open-source Arabic Ebooks
The 10,000 mark was reached earlier this month, and currently featured titles include Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Return of the Spirit (عودة الروح) and Taha Hussein’s Colors (ألوان).
Friday Finds: ‘A Taste of Today’s Gulf Literature’
“My father was a mitwaf, a spiritual guide for the pilgrims, and recently, my siblings and I inherited this appointment.”
Spring Arabic Lecture Series at NYU to Host Fadl, Hashem Beck, al-Atrash
This spring’s lineup will bring in three big names: Egyptian author and critic Belal Fadl, Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck, and Syrian scholar and theatre artist Naila al-Atrash.
‘Loss Sings’ and the Relevance of Poetry from Nearly a Millennium and a Half Ago
“The effect is one laden with impact; the depth of Al-Khansāʾ’s pain and the sense of an unrelenting onward force which strips away her strength and vitality is palpable.”
Huda Fakhreddine on ‘Arabic Modernism’s Other Tradition’
“Described as an oxymoron, a non-genre, an anti-genre, a miracle, and denigrated as a bastard form, a lack, a gap, a deformation, and even a conspiracy, the Arabic prose poem has persisted.”