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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Announcing: Shortlist for 2018 ArabLit Story Prize
The four pairs that made the shortlist of the 2018 ArabLit Story Prize are: Palestinian writer Maya Abu-Alhayyat with translator Riham Adly; Egyptian writer Mohammad Abdelnabi with translator Robin Moger; Syrian author Rasha Abbas with translator Fatima El-Kalay; and Saudi novelist Raja Alem with translator Rana Ghuloom.
Tonight in Beirut: Contestants Meet for 2018 Poetry Slam
The winner will win the chance to go to Paris and participate in the 2019 World Poetry Slam competition.
Published Without Permission: Anthology of Arab Women Writers Pulled
“In the past, these women could cry out in their kitchen…or in the field, heard only by god maybe? Now somebody is taking these cries, translates them and voices [sic] them here in Israel… It’s important to us that the voices of these women are heard…We take it as their salvation.”
Friday Finds: Maan Abu Taleb on Music Writing in Arabic
“We’ve found it difficult to work with writers who have been through the system, who’ve worked for the major newspapers and magazines — even younger writers — because of this attitude. This was one of the main reasons we started a music writing school a few years ago.”
Book Banning in Kuwait: How, Why, & What Comes Next
How does the Ministry of Information in Kuwait oversight committee manage to ban 4390 books in five years?
Dunya Mikhail’s ‘The Beekeeper’ Longlisted for National Book Award
The finalists will be announced October 10, with the winners announced November 14, at a National Book Awards ceremony.
‘So That We Won’t Appear as a Scar on the World’s Brow’
our miseries must vanish
like soap bubbles in the air
so that you
World
can appear laughing
in all your photos
without worrying
that our daughters
might lean out of your eye sockets
Reflecting on Abdel Goddous Al-Khatim’s ‘Reflections On Sudanese Culture’
These critiques closely follow the impact of the ’60s poetry and the evolution of major cultural currents such as the “Bush and the Desert,” which advocated an Afro-Arab identity, followed by “Apademak,” which called for a pure Sudanese culture.