Immigration
No Sanctuary for Murderers
Earlier this week, several media outlets (see here and here, for example) reported on the apprehension of two convicted murderers who had illegally re-entered the country after being ……Read More
Lifestyle
Immigration
Ten Party Defectors Illuminate House Vote on Obama’s Immigration Edict
The House of Representatives voted yesterday 219 to 197 against the president’s executive edict legalizing millions of illegal aliens; some critics said that this vote was more ……Read More
Books
Khaled Mattawa: ‘Translation Really Taught Me How To Write Poetry’
Yesterday, Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, recipient of one of this year’s Genius Grants, was onNPR’s Here & Now, talking about poetry and translation, and most ……Read More
Books
Laila Soliman: ‘Bilingualism on Stage’
Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman, one of the great emerging Arab theatre artists, is giving a talk today in Cairo on “Bilingualism on Stage: The Case ……Read More
Books
Publishers: Get New Syrian Short-story Collection ‘The Gist of It’
A proposal for publishers — to take on a collection of stories by Rasha Abbas — has recently hit PEN’s “Writers in Translation” page: Abbas’s 2008 collection. The “Writers ……Read More
Books
On the Lists: Best Books of 2014
The “year’s best” book lists — be they 10 or 50 or 100; poetry or celeb memoirs or children’s books — are such a widespread phenomenon in English-language newspapers and magazines that the Wall Street Journal does a compilation, a ……Read More