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 […]
Last week, Egyptian-British-American playwright Yussef El Guindi took the prestigious 2012 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theater Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award for his “Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the […]
From the Egypt Independent: When Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa began writing her popular “Mornings in Jenin,” it was, she said, “to put a Palestinian voice in English literature.” But although the […]
Playwright, journalist, novelist, and head of the Egyptian Writers Union Mohamed Salmawy flew to the Emirates last night to give a talk at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair about […]
