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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
33 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
It’s now been thirty-three years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps.
Listening to Refugees: 5 Novels, Stories, and Essays
“Yes, we need to find a solution to the refugee crisis, but let’s start by talking transparently and impartially about the underlying causes of this catastrophe that sees no end.”
Pioneer Translator Roger Allen on a Text He’s Been Working with for the Last 50 Years
Roger Allen retired in 2011 from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served for forty-three years as Professor of Arabic […]
‘He Tells Tales of Meroë’: Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Releases Dual-language, Limited-edition Collection
“On Thursday, Sept. 24, Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq al-Raddi will launch ‘He Tells Tales of Meroë: Poems for the Petrie Museum.'”
Library of Arabic Literature’s ‘Paperback Launch’ to Feature Amitav Ghosh, Elias Khoury, Sinan Antoon
“In less than a month, the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) will launch its first four English-only paperback volumes.”
Algerian Noveliest Boualem Sansal’s ‘2084’ Makes Both Goncourt, Renaudot Longlists
2084 takes place 100 years after 1984. It takes Big Brother and places him in the fictional kingdom of “Abistan.”
New AUC Press Bookshop Opens in Maadi
Last night marked the opening of another bookshop in Maadi, a southern suburb of Cairo.
Two Reviews of ‘Snow in Amman’
“The collection has…an unusual near-balance between men’s stories and women’s.”