5 More #WiTMonth Reads from Lebanon’s Feminist Library
“It has been a very busy year for KW and the Feminist Library.”
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Classics, Revisited: Pre-release Excerpt of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’
“In the furnace of conflict at the heart of the 1987 Intifada, notions of freedom, love, respectability, nationhood, the rights of women and Palestinian identity…will be melted and re-forged.”
5 Books: Recommendations from Bothayna al-Essa
Bothayna Al-Essa — the founder of Takween, a platform for creative writing, a publishing house, and a bookshop — recommended five of her favorite books.
In/for Translation: 7 Arab Women Writing Prison
“Absent, however, were the stories and experiences of women prisoners of conscience.”
Classics, Revisited: Zaynab Fawwaz
“I have not observed anyone who has gone to extremes and set aside a single chapter in the Arabic language for half the human world, in which is brought together those women who were famed for their merits and who shunned bad qualities, even though a group of these women has excelled, having writings to their names with which they have rivaled the greatest learned men and engaged in poetic competition with the master poets.”
Friday Finds: Raghad al-Suheil’s ‘Rabbits of Baghdad’
“The rabbit hopped inside. The kicking started. Both were yelling.”
In/for Translation: 7 Graphic Novels by Arab Women
Seven graphic novels by Arab women that have been translated, would be fun in translation, and/or will soon be available in English translation.
Classics, Revisited: Safinaz Kazem’s ‘Romantics’
“I read her 1970 Romantikeyyat, an account of her years in America as a young student, while working on my PhD dissertation on Arab Travel Narratives of America.”
Areej Gamal on Revolutions Against ‘What Many See As an Intuitive Truth’
“My narrative revolves around a love story between two Egyptian women. Is there a better moment for such love to happen than during a revolution?”