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There’s Something in One of Wadih Sa’adeh’s Poems
“There’s something in one of Wadih Saadeh‘s poems,” the narrator writes in section 12 of Youssef Rakha’s Crocodiles, a novel with a Bolañoesque obsession with the ……Read More
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Sudden Mesopotamian Downpours: Translating the Poetry of Maitham Radhi
Iraqi -born New Zealander architect Ali Shakir discovers a new appreciation for poetry through the work of artist and poet Maitham Radhi: By Ali Shakir ……Read More
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Book review: Khullam Khulla Rishi Kapoor Uncensored
That was the first word I uttered once I reached Page No. 256 of Rishi Kapoor’s unabashed biography Khullam Khulla. From first till the last ……Read More
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Spoken-word Poet Afra Atiq: Placing the Individual at the Heart of Her Commentary
Emirati spoken-word poet Afra Atiq (@a_afra) was born in Dubai and is one of an emerging group of Emirati spoken-word poets. Atiq has said she first ……Read More
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Reading Don Quixote in Haifa
Spanish-Arabic translator Shadi Rohana takes us between seventeenth-century Spain and twentieth- and twenty-first century Palestine, between Miguel Cervantes’ Ricote and Emile Habibi’s Said, in his ……Read More
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Book Review: Karan Johar – An Unsuitable Boy
Now this is a biography I was really waiting for a long time. In Bollywood parlance, this was ‘delayed’ for a while. Announced way back ……Read More