Sunday Submissions: ‘Making Mirrors’: Righting/Writing by Refugees
“We have some idea of what it will look like but in many ways, this crisis will require new skills, approaches, networks… that will necessarily be collaborative.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Emma Ramadan Receives PEN/Heim Grant to Translate Ahmed Bouanani’s ‘Les Persiennes’
“This volume of prose poems—by turns haunting, elegant, and surreal—is a key text by a major Francophone Moroccan poet and filmmaker, deftly translated by Emma Ramadan.”
Friday Films: ‘The Collar and the Bracelet,’ Based on a Novella by Yahya Taher
“The Collar and the Bracelet, which has been beautifully translated by Samah Selim, was also translated to film by Khairy Beshara in 1986 and named one of the Best 15 Films of the Last 100 Years, as chosen by 20 critics. “
For July 28: Not Forgetting Ashraf Fayadh
“I’m afraid I’ll be forgotten.”
Selections from 3 Poems by Today’s Google Doodled Poet, Translator, and ‘Shi’r’ Co-founder Ounsi el-Hajj
“Help me
Let there be in me all poets
Because the charge is greater than my two hands”
On a Book Unbanned in Egypt
“The book was withdrawn for ‘investigation’ by the authorities without any explanation, and repeated enquiries to multiple government ministries failed to elicit any meaningful response.”
Update: Poet Dareen Tatour Released, Will Continue House Arrest at Home
“But after a prolonged drama in the Nazareth court the result was that Dareen was arrested and returned to prison. “
The First Abdellatif Laâbi Collection of 2016 Out Now
“Reading sometimes means
being humiliated for not writing”
Sunday Submissions: A Call for Stories from All Over Asia, At Its ‘Most Inclusive Best’
“We very much want to include stories from all over Asia in its most inclusive best.”