Then on Tuesday, news came that the Arabic edition of Blasim’s first, excellent collection — Madman of Freedom Square — had been banned in Jordan, a country that was supposed to have scrapped censorship back in 2007.
Writer, graduate student, and ArabLit contributor Mohga Hassib spoke with celebrated Palestinian-American poet Sharif Elmusa at the American University in Cairo, where he now teaches. Mohga Hassib: How did you […]
When I met Egyptian graphic novelist and children’s-book illustrator Achraf Abd Elazim last week, he declared that the world has three hubs of comics creativity: New York, the Franco-Belge folks, […]
Elias Khoury spoke to an audience at Queens College in NY, USA, as part of a symposium on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 entitled “Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East.” Jennifer Sears shares her impressions in two separate posts.
Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan has been unable to get a visa for his tour of the U.S. in connection with the release of his Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me, trans. […]
ArabLit contributor Hussein Omar reviews Margaret Litvin’s Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost, released by Princeton University Press in 2011. By Hussein Omar Nasser was not Hamlet, and […]
When then-US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich referred to “an invented Palestinian people,” surely he meant to un-invent them: Who? Whah? Home? Dignity? Rebuttals were various. But, although Gingrich invoked it derisively, invention […]
The PEN American Center announced yesterday that they’re pressing for a US visa for Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan. Zaqtan’s collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (trans. Fady Joudah) is being […]
Regular Arablitters know that Wajdi al-Ahdal’s بلد بلا سماء (A Land without Sama/Sky), trans. William Hutchins, is scheduled for release this fall from Garnet Publishing. Plans are to call it A Land […]
