Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.
Friday Finds: Two Short Works by Hisham Bustani, Tr. Thoraya El-Rayyes
"Yukio Mishima, why did you kill yourself like that?"
Summer of Lock-in Lit: Hisham Bustani’s ‘Eyes without a Face, or: Waiting with Billy Idol in Jordan’
"And over there, where there are no children, grandmothers or earth, it also did not mean a thing to me. My real homeland is: waiting.”
Friday Finds: A Talk with Haidar Haidar
"At the end, what is essential is to write a good literary work, and to hell with prizes."
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: The Public Lecture Series ‘Tarjamat – ترجمات’
"I think the corner stone of a good academic experience is the public lecture. Through the public lecture, the university asserts curiosity as the most essential feature of learning. When I was a student, the public lectures I attended were the key that opened the world for me, and I hope Tarjamat will open translation as a problematic for a much larger community than specialist interest in the field."
Friday Finds: Hisham Bustani reads ‘The Maestro’ and ‘Night’
Bustani's poems, in El Rayyes' translation, first appeared in the winter 2017 issue of 'The Poetry Review,' and the film was premiered at the launch of the winter issue this month.