Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
“Let us be loud enough that he hears us.”
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A True Loss in Translation: The Edited English Version of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘In Praise of Hatred’
“Khalifa’s novel, deprived of its original concluding chapter, is transformed by the publisher and reviewers into Orientalist ethnographicism, inviting audiences to a ‘peek inside’ the harem.”
Ibn al-Nabulusi and the Reasons to Translate ‘Bigot Lit’
“[W]hat this book shows us is that exclusionary ideas arise out of particular milieus and under particular stresses. The authors are not just inspired by the contents of the tradition, they’re aggressively shaping and pruning the tradition to suit their own needs.”
Sunday Submissions: Literary Magazines Looking for Translations in July
Magazines looking for literary translations and multi-lingual texts this month.
Is Sayed Kashua the Funniest Living: A) Israeli-Palestinian or B) Palestinian-Israeli Author?
Whether you read Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Israeli-Palestinian Life” or Sayed Kashua’s new “Native: Dispatches from Palestinian-Israeli Life” depends on whether you buy books printed in the US or the UK. But don’t worry, they’re both equally funny.
Friday Films: ‘The Water Carrier is Dead’ and ‘Land of Hypocrisy,’ Based on Novels by Yusuf al-Sibai
The 1977 film was directed by Salah Abu Seif and won “Best Film of the Year” from the Egyptian Film Association.
Spotifying Arabic Literature: Creating a Soundtrack to Your Intro to Arabic Literature Syllabus
“Thus, over the course of a semester, students will collaboratively create a playlist of songs for each text along with an archived series of their own literary analysis (searchable via tweets and hashtag). “
Renaissance in Four Voices: Four Women Writers Celebrated in Beirut
“He shifted about, lifted his head tepidly, and pitched it inside my neck, whispering that I was his feral cat, roaming city streets leading to the sea, wandering in the rain through the mud and the biting cold, and coming back to him at night wet, hungry, and in search of warmth.”
On Eid al-Fitr, Literature that Remembers Those in Prison, House Arrest, and in Exile
“But this Eid al-Fitr, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji remains in prison on his three-year sentence; Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh remains in prison in Saudi Arabia, serving his eight-year, 800-lash sentence; Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour remains under house arrest…”