Ibrahim Nasrallah will be speaking at Blackwell’s bookshop on South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland at 6 pm on Tuesday March 12. By Sarah Irving Chairing the Nasrallah event will be Professor Marilyn Booth, translator of, amongst other novels, Elias Khoury’s… Read More ›
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If You’re in D.C., ‘Writing the Taboo: The Writing of Palestine in US Theater’
Thanks to blogger and erstwhile ArabLit contributor Nora Lester Murad for passing this along: The event, hosted by the American University’s Arab World Studies program, will be held on March 7 in the Hughes Formal Lounge (that’s the Hughes Building,… Read More ›
Appeal for Donations After Theft at the Palestine Writing Workshop
Now I finally have an occasion for “re-blogging,” and I don’t see a button on Sarah’s post that would allow me to do it. Anyhow, I am pulling this in total from Sarah Irving’s site, where she has posted a… Read More ›
Palestinian Poets Asma’a Azaizeh and Marwan Makhoul on Reading Their Work in Israel, Irony, and Fighting With the Poem
Last Thursday, Banipal magazine and the Mosaic Rooms in London hosted an evening of Palestinian poetry with readings by Asma’a Azaizeh and Marwan Makhoul in Arabic and English followed by a discussion, where the poets were asked about reading their work… Read More ›
Librarians and Archivists for Palestine
This summer, a delegation of 18 librarians, archivists, and other library workers will travel to Palestine: The delegation, which has been in the works since the summer of 2002, is set to arrive in Palestine on June 22 and stay… Read More ›
‘Silencing the Sea’: A Look at the Landscape of Palestinian Poetries
Electronic Intifada recently published Sarah Irving’s review of Khaled Furani’s Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Sarah also blogged on Haifa’s ‘path of poetry’ and Daud Turki, Palestinian poetry and Israeli prisons. This spurred me to open my digital copy of the… Read More ›
Stolen Books, Stolen Identity: What Did Israel Do with Palestinians’ Literary Heritage?
Nora Lester Murad recently went to see Benny Brunner’s film, The Great Book Robbery: By Nora Lester Murad The camera follows two Palestinians with Israeli citizenship from the counter at Israel’s National Library to a table. They carry a small stack… Read More ›
‘We Have On This Earth What Makes Life Worth Living’
I think Ramsey Nasr’s poem (below) speaks to the ongoing Bab Al Shams project. But in Elias Khoury’s letter to the village’s founders, the Lebanese novelist — author of Bab Al Shams (Gate of the Sun) – referenced a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, “We… Read More ›
‘Build Me a Difficult, Painful House’
If you’re in England, the High Impact Tour approaches, where seven Dutch poets (including Palestinian-Dutch poet Ramsey Nasr) will tour through Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Norwich, and London. (If you’re not in England, the Cairo Book Fair is coming up.) Yesterday,… Read More ›
Elias Khoury’s Letter to the Real ‘Gate of the Sun’
As you’ve probably seen, Palestinians have begun to erect a new village, Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun) on land seized by Israel for new settlements. (More in Electronic Intifada, NYTimes.) The village’s name is taken from Elias Khoury’s beautiful, epic novel,… Read More ›
If You’re in London: A Q&A with Palestinian Poets Asma’a Azaizeh and Marwan Makhoul
On Thursday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. (for a 7 p.m. start), Banipal magazine and The Mosaic Rooms are inviting Londoners to an evening of “poetry and discussion” with poets Asma’a Azaizeh and Marwan Makhoul: The event will be introduced by Banipal editor Samuel Shimon… Read More ›
Coming to the UK in January: Palestinian-Dutch Poet Ramsey Nasr
From January 14 – 19 of next year, the award-winning poet Ramsey Nasr will be in the UK as part of the “High Impact Literature Tour”: The visiting writers are being billed as “low country literati,” and are “all prize-winners and best-sellers… Read More ›
