‘Refugee Tales’: ‘People Who Work With Language Can Contribute To That Change’
“Crucially, then, the discourse itself, which is to say the language, has to be addressed and altered. People who work with language can contribute to that change.”
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Sunday Submissions: Call for National Translation Awards Expert Readers in Poetry and Prose
Anyone interested should email by June 24 if interested.
PEN America: ‘Detention of Poet Dareen Tatour Signals Worrying Escalation in Israeli Repression’
“Her detention, one in a string of recent arrests of writers and journalists, signals a worrying expansion in Israeli law enforcement policy to silence views the government deems unsavory.”
Friday Films: ‘Miramar,’ Based on the Novel by Naguib Mahfouz
Miramar was also recently adapted into an opera that debuted in 2005.
It’s Bloomsday: Reading Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ in Arabic
“But Iraqi poet Salah Niazi, who has also translated Macbeth and Hamlet, didn’t cite problems with the first translation when he explained why he started his own translation of Ulysses in 1984.”
Book-to-screen: New This Ramadan
“In any case, the project stars Mona Zaki.”
Novelist Fadi Zaghmout: ‘Many Arabs Are Longing for Sexual Freedoms and Body Rights’
“We march together and fight together and make change together!”
Arab and Arabic Literatures at the 2016 Edinburgh Book Festival
Hisham Matar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nada Awar Jarrar, Ahmed al-Malik and more.
Sunday Submissions: A Special Issue of Queer Translations
“The issue promises to launch mid-September.”