"At the next event, Ghayath Almadhoun will be sharing his latest poetry in Arabic, English & German. Those interested in attending should email Ruth.Abou-Rached@fu-berlin.de by Wednesday, June 10."
Pub Day: Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ Tr. Elisabeth Jaquette
"Aside from these, nothing at all, just a great expanse of the arid Negev desert, over which crouched the intense August heat."
Online, Free: 5 by Ghassan Zaqtan, Including Novella ‘Describing the Past’
"To write a memory I gathered a memory / and to green the marshes I sprinkled friends/ over the salt marshes, and was at a loss/ with myself"
Friday Finds: ‘The Appearance of the Dragon, and His Disappearance’
Khidr’s heart was pounding as he stepped into the house. It was almost sunset, and his mom wasn’t usually this late. Was she on an emergency visit to the hospital to see his dad?
On Ghassan Kanafani Day: 5 Online Reads
“Kanafani made me aware of the importance of being part of what is happening in your generation. You cannot be an outsider.”
On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind/
There’s a land in the mind with a heavenly name the words carry.
2020’s ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Selection: ‘The Book of Disappearance’
As in previous years, the official hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
New in Translation, from ‘The Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye’
Ziad began to feel that there might be some truth in Sitti’s story after all. He pressed her to keep going. “And what happened next, Sitti?”
Update: 2020 PalFest Postponed Due to Coronavirus
As to the 2020 theme, "Palestine are the Global South," they plan to "roll over and develop further for 2021."
Born on This Day: 7 Poems by Fadwa Tuqan
"Do not fill postcards with memories/
Between my heart and the luxury of passion/
stretches a desert where ropes of fire/
blaze and smolder, where snakes/
coil and recoil, swallowing blossoms
with poison and flame."
Friday Finds: Six Poems by Maya Abu Al Hayyat
In others, the narrator is the child-figure, or, in the case of the wonderfully satiric "Like a Domestic Animal," a house pet: "My demands are basic: / some patting over my head/ and clemency for my horrible daily deeds."
ALQ Contributor Ameer Hamad Takes Qattan Short-story Award, Co-Wins Poetry Prize
Each winner takes a $4,000 prize.
