“It is very dangerous what I’m going to say: Taha’s poetry about the Palestinian catastrophe lasts much more than Darwish’s poetry.”
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Tamim Barghouti and Translating Popular Arabic Poetry into English
And yet now Al-Barghouti — who is something of a poet-celebrity, with a viral poem in 2011 and a major 2007 appearance on the Prince of Poets TV show — has his first collection of work in English.
9-Book Shortlist Announced for 2017 Palestine Book Awards
The shortlist includes a YA novel and YA memoir as well as political and scholarly works.
Hannah Khalil’s ‘Scenes from 68* Years’ Shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize for Drama
The winner’s set to be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on August 21.
A Jordan-born Palestinian Author, Writing in Maltese, Wins a 2017 European Union Prize for Literature
Nabhan was nominated for the prize on the strength of his semi-autobiographical 2013 novel L-Eżodu taċ-Ċikonji, or The Storks’ Exodus.
Friday Finds: ‘Under the Midmorning Sun’ and 5 More By Ibrahim Nasrallah
“Seven minutes before its natural end the play stopped. Its rhythm had been sped up, the performance turned into something resembling the dull recitation of a classical poem, or a school text learned by rote.”
PalFest 2017 Opens May 13: Featuring Ma’n Abu Taleb, Nadeem Aslam, Jelani Cobb, Solmaz Sharif, More
In an email newsletter, PalFest organizers said: “PalFest is unable to get to Gaza because of Israel and Egypt’s ongoing siege of the Strip.”
‘We the Aliens,’ ‘Nakba + 100,’ and Palestinian Science Fictions
Comma Press’s forthcoming anthology ‘Nakba + 100’ will — in the style of its ‘Iraq + 100’ anthology, feature “ten stories all set in the year 2048, a century after the ‘catastrophe’ now known as the ‘Nakba’.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘A Blade of Grass,’ New Palestinian Poetry
These poets, Foyle says, should represent “a diverse range of voices, both new and established, from the Occupied Territories, ’48 Palestinians, the diaspora and the refugee community. Some poets and translators will be invited to submit work; others will be selected through this open call.”
Forthcoming: ‘I Don’t Want This Poem to End,’ New Collection of Work by and About Mahmoud Darwish
Interlink promises: “’The End of the Night,’ ‘It’s a Song,’ and ‘I Don’t Want this Poem to End’—three collections totaling about 80 poems, most translated into English for the first time.”
Palestinian Poet Ahmed Dahbour, Friend of Mahmoud Darwish, Dies at 71
“His highly sensitive poetry is dedicated to the Palestinian cause, mixing themes of heroism with a deep recognition of the dangers and tribulations of the contemporary Palestinian experience.”
In the Footsteps of Ghassan Kanafani, on His Birthday
Novelist Sami Michael described his relationship with Kanafani’s book as “like love. You can’t explain why you fell in love with someone.”
