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The Paradox of Scottish Poetry Born in Palestine
Elliot Bannister attended the “A Bird Is not a Stone” launch events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival and experienced the poems both as Scottish and ……Read More
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Frosty Utopias, Bilingualism on Stage, and More from Cairo’s Center for Translation Studies
The fall lecture schedule for Cairo’s Center for Translation studies includes talks by translator and academic Margaret Litvin (Hamlet’s Arab Journey), award-winning playwright Laila Soliman (Egyptian Products, Whims ……Read More
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Institutional and Critical Neglect’ As Part of the Sudanese Writer’s Experience
Translator Max Shmookler, who is currently co-editing a collection of Sudanese short stories with ArabLit contributor Raphael Cormack, continues to write, in a posts that first appeared on Baraza, about ……Read More
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The Authoritarian Turn: On The State of the Egyptian Intelligentsia’
On the occasion of New Directions’ publication of the writer Sonallah Ibrahim’s amazing, acclaimed Stealth, Bidoun and ND are bringing together writers and scholars to reflect ……Read More
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Paid Internship Announcement, More Details on Inaugural Gingko Conference
The Gingko Conference series — in memory of Mark Linz — is a ten-year project that aims to bring together MENA-focused scholars and public figures around particular ……Read More
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The Hidden Light of Objects’: From Kuwait, Looking Out
Mai al-Nakib’s debut collection, The Hidden Light of Objects, has been attracting attention around the world. But do we read these stories as “Kuwaiti” or “American”? Kuwaiti writer ……Read More