This summer’s international feature, “Polyglot and Multinational: Lebanese Writers in Beirut and Beyond,” guest edited by poet and translator Marilyn Hacker, gathers the work of 14 Lebanese writers and their translators.
Read moreafikra Outline: Memory in Ruins
Join afikra as they interview assistant professor of Arabic language and literature and author of “Memory in Ruins: The Poetics of Atlal in Lebanese Wartime and Postwar Production” Yasmine Khayyat on the afikra Outline series.
Read moreLit & Found: ‘Where to, Marie?’ an Open-source Comic in Arabic and English
It’s available for download at wheretomarie.net.
Read moreSunday Submissions: Goethe-Institut Lebanon Support Fund
The Goethe-Institut in Lebanon is calling for applications for their 2021 Support Fund.
Read moreSunday Submissions: Khayrallah Prize
The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies is calling for submissions to their 2021 Khayrallah Prize until October 1, 2021.
Read moreLit & Found: Hoda Barakat’s ‘The Return of the Non-Prodigal Sons’
“We are not a community, we who stayed abroad.”
Read moreTwo Lebanese Writers Were on the Nominations List for 1970 Nobel
“The Nobel committee releases their archives 50 years after the prize deliberations in question.”
Read moreLebanese Publisher, Filmmaker Lokman Slim Found Murdered
Prominent Lebanese publisher, filmmaker, researcher, organizer, and commentator Lokman Slim was found dead Thursday morning. He was 59.
Read moreCharif Majdalani Wins Prix Femina for ‘Beirut 2020: Chronicle of a Collapse’
Lebanese author Charif Majdalani has won a 2020 Prix Femina “special jury prize” for his “Beyrouth 2020: Journal d’un effondrement.”
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