“Narrating the Middle East” is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.
Read morePoetry as Storytelling — A Conversation with Nathalie Handal
This workshop with poet and writer Nathalie Handal brings together an interdisciplinary community to explore the intersection of two research agendas (1) thematically, the study of violence and insecurity, broadly-understood; and (2) methodologically, the theory and practice of varied forms of story-telling as a way of accessing and expressing lived experience and human understanding.
Read moreNathalie Handal, Susan Abulhawa Win Palestine Book Awards
The winners of the 2020 Palestine Book Awards were announced this evening in an online event.
Read moreNathalie Handal’s New Poem, ‘Freedom’
I don’t want to borrow too much from Palestinian-American poet Nathalie Handal‘s “Freedom,” published this week in Guernica. But I did want to make sure you saw the poem. It […]
Read moreFor Your Thursday Afternoon: (Arab and) Arabic Poetry
Adonis is still working on poetry, but next—his memoirs.
Read moreFriday Links: Naomi Shahib Nye’s Poetic Mentors, Bloggers in Saudi Must Register? More
I have never done a link list, but there’s just too much to write about today. # The U.S. State Department has issued a press release about Naomi Shihab Nye, […]
Read moreWhere to Find the Best Arab American Poets…
If you’re looking for it, there are a number of places to seek out excellent Arab American poets. They are celebrated individually (Khaled Mattawa just won a major poetry award) and as a group, as in the most recent Banipal (38).
Read morePalestinian-American Poet Nathalie Handal Wins Honorable Mention at San Francisco Book Festival
Palestinian-French-American poet Nathalie Handal‘s latest collection, Love and Strange Horses, won an honorable mention at the recent San Francisco Book Festival. You can read a review of Love and Strange […]
Read moreLatest 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 […]
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