Sunday Submissions: Dardishi Zine’s Issue 1
Dardishi is looking for art and writing by Arab and North African womxn on the theme of “family” for their inaugural zine
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
This March in Scotland: ‘Palestinian Poetry Showcase’
This March, the Scottish StAnza Festival promises a Palestinian Poetry Showcase.
Friday Finds: Elias Khoury and ‘The Eloquence of Silence’
“The novel is about the politics of telling and hearing, seeing and blindness, truth and the possibility of finding it. It is about the impossibility of linear stories, the problems of history,the power of fiction, and the many many registers of silence.”
An Excerpt of ‘After Coffee’: ‘Music Would Arrive Uninvited’
“Music followed him wherever he went. If it hadn’t been beautiful and giving, he might have said it was pursuing him. What temptation did it see in him? And what was the truth behind this wine that outweighed the impact of any drug?”
The Prescience of a 2001 Egyptian SF Novel: ‘America 2030’
The novel paints a portrait of a dystopian future for the United States, where the mafia take over the political system and places one of their operatives in the White House, transforming the bastion of liberty and democracy into a tyranny that practices gangsterism on a global scale.
PEN Issues Statement of Concern for Health of Imprisoned Egyptian Writer
“PEN believes that the charge against al-Husseini is politically motivated, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release, and for him to be provided with adequate medical care.”
‘The Desert and the Drum’: Ethnography and the Mauritanian Novel
When there are no Mauritanian novels translated into English, which should be the first?
2019 IPAF Longlist Features ‘Strong, Female-led Narratives’
The prize — which has been criticized both for under-representing and over-representing women authors — centered these women’s narratives in its January 7 announcement.
Sunday Submissions: HALAL Fanzine, Issue 2
The call will be open until April 17, 2019.