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Remembering Memory: Literary Sabras and Shatilas
It’s now been thirty-two years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. Like other events that bend human capacity to understand ……Read More
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Can Censors Prevent Citizens from Reading New Kuwaiti Novel, ‘Stray Memories’?
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
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They Tell Me You Have Copies of Awlad 7aretna’
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
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Does Protest Rejuvenate or Limit Literature?
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
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Is It Possible to Translate Ahlam Mostaghenami’s Popularity?
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
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Eight Short Plays Selected for San Francisco’s ‘ReOrient 2015′ Festival
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