The Afterlife of Ghassan Kanafani
“[A] Canadian teacher has been suspended for giving a speech in which she called the assassinated Palestinian writer a martyr.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
More Than 6 Months On, Novelist Ahmed Naji Awaits Scheduling of Appeal
“We invite all writers, journalists, and those interested in freedom of expression and creativity to attend the Bulaq Abu Al-Aila Misdemeanour court session scheduled for Saturday, August 27 to hear the defense’s motion for a stay of the two year sentence issued against writer#AhmedNaji[.]”
Three New Poems, Translated by Robin Moger
“Every poem I read / a jewel / looted from the world. / Every poem I wrote / an apology.”
Sunday Submissions: Microtheatre in Translation
“Submissions should be of 8-10 pages in length and must be received by August 31, 2016. “
Palestinian-Chilean Novelist Lina Meruane: ‘Seeing Red’ and ‘Becoming Palestine’
“Palestine has always been a murmur in the background, a story I tell myself to rescue a shared origin from extinction.”
Ghayath al-Madhoun, Poetring the World
“This summer seeping through the fractures
of Damascus is killing me. I creep like rust
on the doors of this prison, now turned
into a museum.”
One Sami Michael Novel Delisted from Israel’s HS Reading List, Another Banned
Both “A Trumpet in the Wadi” and “Refuge” are available in English translation.
Farouk Mardam Bey: Literary Translation from Arabic to French is ‘More Important Than Ever’
“[O]nly 0.6% of translations of foreign works into French are from the Arabic.”
Homage to Sadek Aïssat: Music, Dreams and the Cleansing Effect of Urine
“Algerian fiction is better known, in Algeria and beyond, for its narratives of tragedies directly related to war, through which seeps the undiluted memory of ruthless violence. Underground, however, a magnificent layer lies, one that is deeply connected to an ancestral oral literary tradition, to its animals, its magic realism and delicious wit.”