Saturday Submissions: ‘Islamicate SF’ Short Story Contest
“Submissions will be accepted through June 8, 2016.”
Poetry
Friday Films: ‘Gate of the Sun,’ Based on the Novel by Elias Khoury
“[I]t was selected by Cannes Film Festival to be part of its official, out of competition selections[.]”
New Arabic Poetry Translation Prize, Judged by Fady Joudah
$500 for “the best English translation of an Arabic poem on the themes of social justice or freedom of expression.”
Syrian Novelist Khaled Khalifa: ‘I Have Always Wondered About the Ability of Some Writers To Remain Silent’
“I have always wondered about the ability of some writers to remain silent while the body parts of their own people are strewn about: murdered or drowned, refugees or prisoners; when a regime destroys a country and kills civilians, with impunity and for its own survival.”
Sunday Submissions: Ghassan Kanafani Writing Scholarship
“Submissions must come from Palestinian-Americans aged 18-25.”
On Ghassan Kanafani’s 80th Birthday, ‘A Night Without a Blanket’
“I figured it had been written two weeks earlier. I cried at the end.”
Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches ‘The Great Flight’
“The issue also includes work by five Assyrian Iraqi poets, the great Algerian poet-translator-scholar Habib Tengour, and Algerian poet and novelist Mohammed Dib.”
Women Write War: 4 Books
“Is there a difference between men’s and women’s war stories?”
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”