Remembering Memory: Literary Sabras and Shatilas
It’s now been thirty-two years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. Like other events that bend human capacity to understand our species, they continue to […]
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Can Censors Prevent Citizens from Reading New Kuwaiti Novel, ‘Stray Memories’?
Kuwaiti government censors have prevented Abdullah Al Busais’s new novel “Stray Memories” from entering the country. What effect will the banning have?
‘They Tell Me You Have Copies of Awlad 7aretna’
Tonight, academic, novelist, and translator Elliott Colla will be joining a panel of poets, activists and scholars speaking about poetical and political freedoms at George Mason University’s Fall for the Book festival. This is part of an ongoing DC-wide contribution to the Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC Project. In advance of his talk, Colla put together some memories of buying books in Cairo over the last 29 years.
Does Protest Rejuvenate or Limit Literature?
Two recent PEN pieces — an event called “Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?” and an essay by short-story writer Rasha Abbas, “Art and Culture from the Frontline: […]
Is It Possible to Translate Ahlam Mostaghenami’s Popularity?
Translating an author’s work is one thing. Translating popularity from one language to another is quite another.
Eight Short Plays Selected for San Francisco’s ‘ReOrient 2015’ Festival
There are a handful of theatres around the US that focus on Arab and “Arab-themed” drama — Chicago’s Silk Road Rising, NYC’s Noor Theatre, and San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions. Most stage works written in English, although Golden Thread’s “ReOrient” competition is unusual in that it’s open to playwrights worldwide.
‘Baffling and Disappointing’: On the ‘Authoritarian Turn’ of the Egyptian Intelligentsia
Chip Rossetti, translator of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Beirut, Beirut (2014, 2015 US), was in attendance at this week’s “The Authoritarian Turn: On The State of the Egyptian Intelligentsia.” The talk focused in large part on Ibrahim.
The Paradox of Scottish Poetry Born in Palestine
Elliot Bannister attended the “A Bird Is not a Stone” launch events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival and experienced the poems both as Scottish and as Palestinian.
Frosty Utopias, Bilingualism on Stage, and More from Cairo’s Center for Translation Studies
The fall lecture schedule for Cairo’s Center for Translation studies includes talks by translator and academic Margaret Litvin (Hamlet’s Arab Journey), award-winning playwright Laila Soliman (Egyptian Products, Whims of Freedom), and award-winning scriptwriter […]