Upcoming Events: ‘The Common’ Launch, ‘Making Film in Egypt,’ & more
A few upcoming online events.
Najwan Darwish
Upcoming Events: Fundraiser for Beirut, Adabiyat Book Club, Kayfa Ta & More
A few upcoming online events.
Upcoming Events: Translating Colloquial Poetry, Launching ‘Book of Ramallah’, Najwan Darwish Reading, More
A selection of online events from the coming week.
Friday Finds: Three Poems and a Digital Book Launch with Najwan Darwish
The launch of the new book — set for October 15 at 7 p.m. BST — will feature readings by Darwish and Alshaer, along with a discussion of the poems and the translation process with PTC commissioning editor Edward Doegar.
Friday Finds: Najwan Darwish, ‘An Afternoon in Albaicín’
“The news of your death reached me / one sweltering afternoon / as I sat with friends on a peak of Albaicín.”
10 By Najwan Darwish; Then You Be the Translator
My night moves
between the tunes of Sabah Fakhri
and the rhythms of Abdel Wahab
For National Poetry Day: 10 from New or Forthcoming Collections
Each time I begin to write about love
the other woman reaches out
and pushes my fingers from the keyboard
the lonely woman who lost everything
the wild woman
who looks like me
2 Arab Participants in U of Iowa’s 2010 International Writing Program
Thanks to M.A. Orthofer at The Literary Saloon, I see that the University of Iowa International Writing Program has announced their 2010 International Writing Program participants. As Orthofer notes, these […]
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