Voices in Support of Novelist Ahmed Naji
“When you confiscate creative work and imagination, it is like confiscating the right to life.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Qatari Poet Muhammad Al Ajami, Serving 15-year Sentence, Pardoned by Emir
Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami — who was the target of an international solidarity movement because of his 15-year prison sentence — has been pardoned, according to the UN’s Office of the […]
Translating #Cervantes400 into Arabic
“Between Don Quijote (دون كيخوت), Don Quichotte (دون كيشوت) and Dhon Quikhote (ضون كيخوطى); between Cervantes (سرفاتس) and Thervantes (ثربانتس), to speak of Cervantes in Arabic is to open Pandora’s box…”
The Murder of Syrian Poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani
“Reports emerged in recent days that both al-Aani and his son were killed after IS accused them of ‘apostasy’. “
Coming in Time for #Shakespeare400: Four Arab Hamlet Plays
The collection also includes an autobiographical sketch by Mahmoud Aboudoma, “Gamlet” is Russian for “Hamlet.”
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘If I Were a Hunter’
If a hunter I were
I’d give the gazelle
a chance, and another,
and a third, and a tenth,
to doze a little.
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“No one says to the olive tree: How beautiful you are!”
‘Mahmoud Darwish Awards’ Go to Ghassan Zaqtan, Elias Khoury, and Alice Walker
Each winner was awarded $25,000.
On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘Dying for Free’
“and the arms of spilled blood call to me: come!”