Lit & Found: ‘The Gifts of Movement,’ a Talk with Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous
2023-05-26
“I think the real migration for artists is the migration of languages.”Continue Reading
The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson
2023-04-28
Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. SarajevoContinue Reading
The Gifts of Movement | Transformative Migrations in the Digital Age: Saïd Khatibi and Amara Lakhous in conversation with Alexander Elinson
2022-10-04
Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. SarajevoContinue Reading
Writers Select: New & Inventive Algerian Voices
2022-02-01
We asked a number of Iraqi writers, translators, and scholars to put together a list of their highlights from Iraqi literature. Continue Reading
Banipal Book Club – ‘Sarajevo Firewood’
2021-11-09
Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of ‘Sarajevo Firewood’ by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey.Continue Reading
Said Khatibi on the Entanglements of Story in Bosnia and Algeria
2020-01-08
“When the war began in Sarajevo I was a child. I was in southern Algeria then. We sang songs in school about the children of Sarajevo, and we saw pictures of what was happening there on TV.”Continue Reading
‘Firewood of Sarajevo’: Testimonies against Amnesia and for an Alternative History
2019-12-24
The novel was inspired, in part, by a 2018 workshop organized by me and Cherifa Kheddar, Director of the NGO Djazairouna, where we brought together survivors of the Algerian Civil war with writers, artists, psychologists, filmmakers and journalists. The objective was to translate first-hand testimonies into different media, including literature.Continue Reading
