Lit & Found: ‘Country of Words’ Podcast on Palestinian Literature
Earlier this week, the “PalREAD – Country of Words” project announced the launch of the debut episode of their new podcast.
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#WiTMonth Podcasts: Poetry and More with Iman Mersal
Meanwhile, in an August episode of the new podcast MAQSOUDA, co-hosted by Farah Chamma and Zeina Hashem Beck, the host-poets discuss Mersal’s «فكرة البيوت», or “The Idea of Houses.”
Bulaq 53: ‘Murder, They Wrote’
Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ.
Bulaq 52: ‘Widows, Conmen, and Crimes’
First, we talked our way through a book that tells the stories of women who rallied to ISIS; then a novel that focuses on a Franco-Moroccan family grappling with the end of colonialism; and last, a picaresque, satirical novel from 1940s Egypt that has been recently re-discovered.
Bulaq and Vote
While you’re on your way to the polls — or as you wait for results, or as you assiduously ignore what’s going on in the US — catch up on any Bulaqs you might have missed.