When (Arab) Poets Write Prose
Baheyya begins her review of Mourid Bargouti’s 2009 memoir I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by stating: “It’s a wonderful thing when poets write prose.” This is certainly […]
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More on the Talented Ahmad Yamani and News of Arabic Poetry in (English) Translation
If you want your own Ahmad Yamani—in print, in English—you can of course pick the Beirut 39 collection (which features a few of his early works), or head back to […]
Darwish’s /Journal of an Ordinary Grief/ Set for an October English Release
This October (2010), Archipelago Books will release one of Mahmoud Darwish’s prose collections, a volume of rich autobiographical essays, Journal of an Ordinary Grief. The Journal was originally published in […]
Paris Dedicates Mahmoud Darwish Square
Mahmoud Darwish Square (Place Mahmoud Darwich) was dedicated yesterday by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. You can read reports about it from the […]
All Right, I Give in, Novels about Football (Soccer)
Everyone seems to be publishing lists of their must-read, English-language books about football (or soccer, where the lists are American). After all, we English speakers do seem to be terribly […]
Latest Issue of ‘International Gallerie’ Magazine Focuses on Palestinian Culture
Susannah Tarbush, over at Tanjara, notes that the latest issue of International Gallerie, “an award-winning global arts and ideas journal published from India.” Tarbush says: In the realm of the […]