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• Palestine Festival of Literature Announces 2013 Schedule, Authors

  By mlynxqualey on May 13, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  This year’s Palestine Festival of Literature, popularly known as PalFest, will take place in six cities across historic Palestine from May 23 to 30.

• If You’re in Cairo: What Are Opposition Cartoonists Up To?

  By mlynxqualey on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Blogger, editor, cartoonist and Fulbright fellow Jonathan Guyer(@mideastXmidwest) will be talking cartoons at Helwan University on May 14.

• Plots, Allegiances, and Re-imagined History in the Qatari Novel ‘The Corsair’

  By mlynxqualey on May 12, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  “The Corsair” — written by Qatari journalist, engineer, and author Abdul Aziz al-Mahmoud — is built to be both edifying and widely read, in the tradition of one of the all-time most popular Arab novelists: Jurji Zaidan.

• Rachida Madani and Marilyn Hacker Reading for Poets & Players

  By mlynxqualey on May 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  At the end of April, Moroccan poet Rachida Madani and poet-translator Marilyn Hacker traveled around the UK reading from Hacker’s translation of Madani’s “Tales of a Severed Head.” Here, Madani and Hacker read at Poets & Players.

• Cairo Translation Showdown Re-scheduled

  By mlynxqualey on May 10, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Cairo’s first-ever translation slam, originally set for Dec. 7, 2012, is now back on the schedule. According to a British Council mailing, it will be on Tuesday May 28 at 6 p.m. at the Council building in Agouza.

• Let’s Gimbal: New App Offers Stories from Around the World

  By mlynxqualey on May 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Gimbal brings together the stories from Literature Across Frontier’s ‘Tramlines’ project and Comma Press’s ‘Reading the City’ commissions.

• PEN World Voices: Which Voices?

  By mlynxqualey on May 9, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  This year’s fest certainly had a moment that crystallized around its contradictions: when Salman Rushdie, giving a speech about courage and artistic risk, told a dissenter to shut the fuck up.

• Tea Boys or Interns? Translators Tackle the Language of Najwan Darwish

  By mlynxqualey on May 8, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  The PEN Translation Slam, part of the annual PEN World Voices event in New York City, is a curious event: a poet reads a work in its original language and translators duel by reading their versions of the same work.

• Moroccan Author Fouad Laroui Wins Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle

  By mlynxqualey on May 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Moroccan author Fouad Laroui has won the 2013 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, one of France’s top literary prizes, for his novel “L’étrange affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine.”

• If You’re in Cairo, If You’re in NYC: May 11 is Egyptian Graphic Novel Day

  By mlynxqualey on May 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On May 11, if you’re one of the 28 million who live — collectively — in Cairo or New York City, then get yourself to one of these events celebrating and exploring the Egyptian graphic novel.

• Interviews with IPAF Winner Saud al-Sanousi

  By mlynxqualey on May 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  There have been a number of interviews with the (charming) winner of this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) — Saud al-Sanousi, for his The Bamboo Stalk — in English-language media or English translation.

• All That’s Left to You: Three Palestinian Writers in Conversation

  By mlynxqualey on May 6, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  This past Saturday, Suneela Mubayi was at the PEN World Voices Festival, for the talk “All That’s Left to You: Palestinian Writers in Conversation,” with novelists Adania Shibli and Randa Jarrar and poet Najwan Darwish.

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