Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Reportedly Jailed, Prosecuted for Poem on Facebook
“The prosecution started its plea by calling the policeman who translated the “Qawem” poem to Hebrew to the stand. The scene was completely surreal.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Why Iraqi Novelist Ali Bader Shifted Women’s Liberation to the Center of His Work
His interest shifted from the mechanisms of political reform to a social revolution. Women’s liberation, he said, “is at the heart” of this.
Saturday Submissions: ‘Islamicate SF’ Short Story Contest
“Submissions will be accepted through June 8, 2016.”
Friday Films: ‘Gate of the Sun,’ Based on the Novel by Elias Khoury
“[I]t was selected by Cannes Film Festival to be part of its official, out of competition selections[.]”
New Arabic Poetry Translation Prize, Judged by Fady Joudah
$500 for “the best English translation of an Arabic poem on the themes of social justice or freedom of expression.”
Forthcoming from the Library of Arabic Literature: A 19th-century Traveler’s Account of Sudan, A Popular Medieval Cookbook, ‘101 Nights,’ and More
While Executive Editor Shawkat Toorawa noted that the board’s expertise “by and large tends to be pre-1450,” it’s clear that the project isn’t just translating the classic classics, but also works from the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries.
Poet Amal al-Jubouri on How She Lost and Found Her Voice
“But my voice came back when the great poet Nizar al-Qabbani intervened after the festival[.]”
Syrian Novelist Khaled Khalifa: ‘I Have Always Wondered About the Ability of Some Writers To Remain Silent’
“I have always wondered about the ability of some writers to remain silent while the body parts of their own people are strewn about: murdered or drowned, refugees or prisoners; when a regime destroys a country and kills civilians, with impunity and for its own survival.”
Sunday Submissions: Ghassan Kanafani Writing Scholarship
“Submissions must come from Palestinian-Americans aged 18-25.”