On Ghassan Kanafani’s 80th Birthday, ‘A Night Without a Blanket’
“I figured it had been written two weeks earlier. I cried at the end.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Friday Films: ‘The Lamp of Umm Hashem,’ Inspired by a Novella by Yahia Haqqi
“I made so many sophisticated movies, but people can only remember Qandil Umm Hashem.”
Tahar Ben Jelloun’s ‘About My Mother’ Wins 2016 PEN Promotes Award
“This is the final round of the PEN Promotes awards scheme in its current form[.]”
Ibrahim Abdelmeguid’s ‘Beyond Writing’ Wins 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Beyond Writing “provides a creative view of the political, social and cultural contexts within which the books were written.”
Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches ‘The Great Flight’
“The issue also includes work by five Assyrian Iraqi poets, the great Algerian poet-translator-scholar Habib Tengour, and Algerian poet and novelist Mohammed Dib.”
Women Write War: 4 Books
“Is there a difference between men’s and women’s war stories?”
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”
Saturday Submissions: ‘Rhino,’ the National Translation Award, and Other Calls for Poetry
They specifically request translations that “move, experiment, provoke, play, compel, sing.”
Friday Films: ‘The Dupes,’ Inspired by Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘Men in the Sun’
“The film was released the same year Kanafani was assassinated by a car bomb.”