Immigration
Journalistic Pablum and Faux Human Interest
The poor quality of news reporting in an immigration case was recently brought to my attention, and I have to say that, even in a ……Read More
Lifestyle
Immigration
State Department’s Presentation of Diversity Visa Data Is Misleading
There is a bit of statistical sleight-of-hand present in one of the more bizarre features of our immigration policy — the diversity visa lottery in ……Read More
Books
Not the ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’
Yesterday was PEN‘s “Day of the Imprisoned Writer,” and they recognized five imprisoned writers. Today we remember five others: Although PEN advocates for many imprisoned writers, they highlighted ……Read More
Books
A Corpus, Not a Canon: Translating Classical Arabic for the Modern Reader
n Nov. 20, a number of Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) stalwarts will be found at the Penn Bookstore in Philadelphia, giving a talk about “A ……Read More
Books
Eighty Years of Saadi Youssef: ‘We Write To Make People Happy’
Issue 51 of Banipal magazine focuses on pioneering poet Saadi Youssef, who was born in 1934 near Basra: The section of the magazine dedicated to the Iraqi poet ……Read More
Books
Why Arab Authors Must Write Futuristic Fiction
Arab authors must engage more with futuristic fiction, al-Mustafa Najjar argues. By Al-Mustafa Najjar Architecture proposed for a a rather boring future Iraq. Well-known Egyptian ……Read More