Sunday Submissions: ‘Nakba + 100’ Guidelines, Stephen Spender Prize, ‘Zabaan’
Deadlines: May 26 (Stephen Spender Prize), September 1 (‘Nakba + 100’), and rolling (‘Zabaan’).
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Three Books: Translated and Introduced by Barbara Harlow (1948-2017)
Yesterday, Jadaliyya published a special section on scholar-activist Barbara Harlow, who died this January.
Friday Finds: ‘Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge’
“What you call immorality is actually just a different type of morality, with its own beauty.”
PalFest 2017 Opens May 13: Featuring Ma’n Abu Taleb, Nadeem Aslam, Jelani Cobb, Solmaz Sharif, More
In an email newsletter, PalFest organizers said: “PalFest is unable to get to Gaza because of Israel and Egypt’s ongoing siege of the Strip.”
Coming in August: Mazen Kerbaj’s ‘Beirut Won’t Cry,’ Finally in English
“I am very happy that it is Fantagraphics, one of my favorite publishers in the world, that is putting it out, with an introduction by the specialist of comics, wars, Arabs and Israelis: Mr. Joe Sacco.”
‘We the Aliens,’ ‘Nakba + 100,’ and Palestinian Science Fictions
Comma Press’s forthcoming anthology ‘Nakba + 100’ will — in the style of its ‘Iraq + 100’ anthology, feature “ten stories all set in the year 2048, a century after the ‘catastrophe’ now known as the ‘Nakba’.”
An Excerpt from Mansoura Ez Eldin’s ‘Emerald Mountain’
“Cairo was my final stop, where I would find what I was looking for. Cairo, where—thirty-two years after I bade him goodbye—I sit, knitting words together, weaving together the tale missing from the Thousand and One Nights.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Transference’ Seeks Translated Arabic Poems for Fall 2017 Issue
“Along with the translated poem(s), translators should also submit a commentary on the translation process, addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices.”
The Story of ‘Ahmed and Aziz’ in a New French Novel, ‘The Orange Grove’
“Reading ‘The Orange Grove’ with my journalist’s eye, I am tempted to pick fault with it[.]”