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“There are codes that you have no access to — and therefore you, like my traveler, are blind.”

Blue –

Like the anger of the waves.

I broken my silence,

Only for bitterness to build a settlement in my heart!

“Bin Shatwan is scheduled to arrive in Durham to begin her residency in January 2018. During her three-month residency, she’s meant to engage in monthly literary activities with writers and readers in Durham, the northeast of England, and in London — in addition to pursuing her work-in-progress.”

“We meet a man who lives his whole life with questions, then simply dives into them.  He reminds us of the people we love most. He is the sea and the sky. He is Palestine and the United States and anywhere else you ever loved that did not quite live up to Best Dreams of Justice and Fairness.”

“In these thirty years, Hewison has done perhaps more than any other individual to shape the corpus of Arabic literature in English translation.”

“The child writers are, of course, the most important participants in the project, but in the background were Baree Khalil, a children’s-book author from Syria, and the writing coaches Tomas Jakobsson and Karin Olsson, all three residents in Gävle.”

Today is the last day of World Kid Lit Month (#WorldKidLit) as well as International Translation Day (#ITD2017). Here, we bring together a few of the issues facing Arabic children’s literature and make suggestions for a start at bringing the best of Arabic children’s literature into English.

In the last ten days, there have been two big talks about comics and cartoonists, one by Libyan poet-translator-media mogul-doctor-blogger Ghazi Gheblawi, in London, and the other by author-artist-scholar-blogger Jonathan Guyer at Harvard.