Arabic Literature and the Politics of Coffee: 3 Books
“The beverage is described as being the preferred drink of Sufis, implying that it has similar ecstasy-producing effects.”
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Moroccan World Cup Team: 23 Writers
“Again, remember, writers must be living to play, so no Mohammed Choukri, Ahmed Bouanani, Muhammad Zafzaf, Mohamed Leftah, Driss Chraïbi, or Malika Moustadraf.”
9: Read a Book About Exile
For Refugee Week in the UK, organizers are asking people to do 20 Simple Acts to celebrate 20 years of Refugee Week. Number 9 is “Read a Book About Exile.”
Bulaq 16: Choose Your Team
“We spent some time with the collection Marrakech Noir, ed. Yassin Adnan, which is coming out from Akashic Books in August.”
6 New Summer Reads for Beach, Protest, or Plane
Six new releases to read this summer.
Apply: Postdoc in Palestinian Literature
“PalREAD will seek to map and trace the development of Palestinian literature from 1948 to the present, with a focus on Arabic-language literary sources published across the Arab world, in Europe and North America.”
Poet Galal El-Behairy’s ‘Letter from Tora Prison’
They want to hide the past
behind locks and bolts,
preventing him from whispering
about how things once were.
For Pride Month: 5 Fictions Online
“Oh wow. A trans Algerian! That’s amazing. And your Swedish is amazing! Can I ask you a question?”
‘Pay No Heed’: Talks with Palestinian Writers
“After all, if I was looking for new stories, who better to turn to than the storytellers themselves?”