Sunday Submissions: ‘Tales from Muslim Worlds’
“Writers (and translators) whose work is selected for print will be offered a $200 honorarium.”
Poetry
New Palestinian-Syrian Play ‘Desert of Light’ Premieres This Month at Cornell
“Maggor added over email that Hadyar’s U.S. visa had been approved, so the playwright will be joining the final week of rehearsals as well as the production. “
‘A Poet Behind Bars’: A New Poem from Dareen Tatour
“See, prison is for lovers.”
Should You Read Naguib Mahfouz’s Juvenalia?
“Naguib Mahfouz didn′t want his early essays salvaged from out-of-print journals, dusted off and collected in an anthology.”
Poem from Syria Becomes Part of Haunting Composition ‘Songish’
“[A]nd what can I do from where I am except raise my voice against this somehow.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Underpass,’ a New Journal for Literary Translations
“Although in practice, they say, this ‘means any language other than Spanish, French, or German.'”
The Afterlife of Ghassan Kanafani
“[A] Canadian teacher has been suspended for giving a speech in which she called the assassinated Palestinian writer a martyr.”
Three New Poems, Translated by Robin Moger
“Every poem I read / a jewel / looted from the world. / Every poem I wrote / an apology.”
Sunday Submissions: Microtheatre in Translation
“Submissions should be of 8-10 pages in length and must be received by August 31, 2016. “