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.”
Poetry
Saturday Submissions: ‘Rhino,’ the National Translation Award, and Other Calls for Poetry
They specifically request translations that “move, experiment, provoke, play, compel, sing.”
Amir Tag Elsir’s ‘French Perfume’ Makes 2015 Best Translated Book Award Longlist
“Although this novel interrogates the ‘North-South’ relationship, it is very different from the seminal work by El Sir’s famous uncle, Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North.”
A New Translation of ‘Locusts Leave No Field Green’ by ‘Ali ‘Ubayd al-Sa’i
“They were going to join the official Locust Resistance Committees and fight back.”
Rabee Jaber’s Must-read ‘Confessions,’ in Gorgeous English Translation
“Instead, there is cake.”
‘Our Lot Is To Hope’: Revisiting Syrian Playwright Saadallah Wannous’ World Theatre Day Message
“Our lot is to hope, and what happens today cannot be the end of time.”
Under Siege in Damascus, ‘A Book Becomes A Person’s Best Friend’
The BBC recently published an interview with an activist-librarian working in the suburbs of Damascus, identified only as Ahmed: The BBC reporter asked “Ahmed” why — when there is no food, no […]
On World Poetry Day, Support Imprisoned Poets
“Your voice matters.”
Saturday Submissions: New Palestinian Poetry Anthology and More
“The book will present up to five poems each by 10-12 Palestinian poets, representing a diverse range of voices, both new and established, from the Occupied Territories, the diaspora and refugee community, and ’48 Palestinians. “