Radical Poetry Reading with Mona Kareem
2022-06-21
Mona Kareem curates the Brooklyn Rail’s 91st Radical Poetry Reading with Mirene Arsanios and Sara Elkamel.Continue Reading
April Translation Challenge: Konafa v. Qatayef
2022-04-04
For our most recent Translation Challenge, hosted by Adam Talib, participants tried their hand at translating an 1882 text on taxation by ʿAbd Allāh an-Nadīm, and the results were “cruel and barbarous, blood-curdling and gut-wrenching.” For this month’s translation challenge, we hope the results will be sweeter. Join in theContinue Reading
Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha, in conversation with Mary Karr
2022-04-01
The Markaz Review and City Lights in conjunction with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance celebrate the publication of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha.Continue Reading
Syrian Poets Today and Elsewhere
2022-03-21
Join RAWI for the first gathering of its kind, of Syrian poets writing today and from elsewhere in the diaspora.Continue Reading
Bilal Orfali: Walking in the Steps of Poets: Courtly Themes in Early Sufism
2022-03-10
As the second lecture of the DVP Bayard Dodge Sprin 2022 Lecture series, Bilal Orfali will give a talk in Arabic on “Walking in the Steps of Poets: Courtly Themes in Early Sufism.”Continue Reading
Sunday Submissions: Action Books Open Reading Period
2022-03-06
US publisher Action Books is inviting submissions of poetry in translation through March 2022.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Five Poems by French-Algerian Poet Souad Labbize
2022-02-11
“I don’t know what to make
of the reasons to love you
an early season
begins and ends
in the midst of another
we don’t even have to
change our clothes”Continue Reading
Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nāzik al-Malā’ika
2022-01-28
‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a is discussing Nāzik Al-Malā’ika’s poems on 1/28, 6:00pm–7:00pm GMT, from Cambridge. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83547890773?pwd=aVcxTTU5Nk02dGQxeXZrTi8zM3Zndz09&fbclid=IwAR0HCOMqcquriLLG5VeXmuQvbuSBlM3mDZzJUsA9P9IIkvN7ORqJyzn8Sk4#successContinue Reading
Translation Talks: Khaled Mattawa and Sarah Riggs
2022-01-23
The Griffin Poetry Prize is excited to launch their new series Translation Talks, with the first session taking place on Thursday, January 27th at 7pm ET on Zoom, featuring Khaled Mattawa in conversation with Sarah Riggs.Continue Reading
