Golan Haji’s ‘The Same Silence’
2021-03-08
A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.Continue Reading
‘Hara Hotel’: On Centering the Western Narrator and Stories About Syrian Refugees
2020-12-12
“It reminds us of the colonial narratives advancing how the colonized people are in desperate need of saving.”Continue Reading
#WiTMonth Conversations: Shahla Ujayli and Getting Raqqa Back Through Writing
2020-08-11
“Raqqa is no longer the city I knew; I belong to a place that no longer exists. I try to get it back through writing.”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: Rasha Omran Poetry Collection Free, Online
2018-08-24
Each time I begin to write about love
the other woman reaches out
and pushes my fingers from the keyboardContinue Reading
Syrian Poet and Actor Fadwa Souleiman, 45
2017-08-17
“For if you have crossed
So have we all”Continue Reading
Open Letter from Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
2012-02-08
Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, author of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted In Praise of Hate, is circulating an open letter that has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Albanian, Norwegian (available on his Facebook page). My friends, writers and journalists from all over the world, in China and Russia,Continue Reading
Arabic Poetry Friday: Tamim Barghouti’s Latest, Submission Suggestions, Second Graders Read Adonis
2011-04-29
Zeinobia has posted a new poem by Palestinian-Egyptian poet Tamim Barghouti, son of Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour and Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti. The poem is “يا شعب مصر.” Tamim Barghouti famously wrote “the poem of the Egyptian revolution,” which was oft-recited on al-Jazeera and in Tahrir. Although Barghouti has expressedContinue Reading
