Kuwaiti government censors have prevented Abdullah Al Busais’s new novel Stray Memories (Zakriyat Dalla) from entering the country. What effect will the banning have? Clearly, most government censorship ……Read More
Tonight, academic, novelist, and translator Elliott Colla will be joining a panel of poets, activists and scholars speaking about poetical and political freedoms at George Mason University’s Fall for ……Read More
Two recent PEN pieces — an event called “Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?” and an essay by short-story writer Rasha Abbas, “Art ……Read More
A version of this post first appeared in The Chimurenga Chronic, which is obviously the pan-African quarterly gazette of the future: As background, Algerian novelist Ahlam Mostaghanemi needs little ……Read More
There are a handful of theatres around the US that focus on Arab and “Arab-themed” drama — Chicago’sSilk Road Rising, NYC’s Noor Theatre, and San Francisco’s Golden Thread ……Read More
Chip Rossetti, translator of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Beirut, Beirut (2014, 2015 US), was in attendance at this week’s “The Authoritarian Turn: On The State of the Egyptian Intelligentsia.” The ……Read More
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