‘Iraq + 100’: Supporting New Iraqi Writers, Supporting Literature in 3ameya
The ‘Iraq + 100’ or ‘العراق 2103′ project continues to gain steam as it moves toward the initial June 1 deadline. On the eve of Iraq + 10, ArabLit exchanged a few […]
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Highlights from Coming ‘Reel Iraq’
Reel Iraq is now spreading out across the British Isles. Sarah Irving shares her highlights: By Sarah Irving Over the next few days, Reel Festivals events across England, Northern Ireland, […]
Iraqi Authors on ‘A Decade of Despair’
This is the month, the week, the fifteen minutes that the world is grappling with and reflecting on the US-led invasion of Iraq. But it’s been more than fifteen minutes […]
Raja Shehadeh’s ‘Occupation Diaries’ Makes Orwell Prize Longlist
Raja Shehadeh finds himself once again on the Orwell Prize longlist: Shehadeh, who won the prize in 2008 for his Palestinian Walks, made the 2013 Orwell Prize longlist with his newest book, Occupation […]
10 Years Later: Artists and Writers in Search of a Common Street
As explosions rock Baghdad, and dozens of individual souls die, it is becomes yet more difficult to think through the role of art. Nonetheless, art. A piece from this week’s […]
Reading, 10 Years After the Invasion of Iraq
It was ten years ago today — March 19, 2003 — that US forces entered Iraq: “My fellow citizens,” George W. Bush said in a televised address, “at this hour American and […]
10 Years Later: Q & A with Iraqi Artist Satta Hashem
Some days, a literature blog must diverge from the written word to other forms of translated expression. At the Mosaic Rooms on March 22, a number of artists and […]
If You’re in Ramallah: ‘Writing in Times of Siege’
Thanks to Nora Lester Murad for passing this on: The Palestine Writing Workshop, in partnership with the Palestine Festival of Literature and Dar Zahran, is organizing a panel discussion on “Writing […]
10 Years Later: 2 Translations Sargon Boulus’s ‘A Refugee Tells’
On March 19, ten years will have passed since the US first invaded and occupied Iraq. Poet Sargon Boulus died in October 2007, while the war raged and the Occupation […]