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Arab Culture / Arabic / Iraq / Israel / Mashreq / Palestinian people

March 27, 2018

Women’s Nonfiction on Political Detention: From Iraq to Palestine

via Arabic Literature (in English) & MLYNXQUALEY on MARCH 27, 2018 • ( 0 ) “Keep still, the stories will come to you if you listen” By Nora Parr Photo by Amal Eqeiq Between...

Arab Culture / Colonialism / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestinian people

March 23, 2018

Uri Avnery: Son of a Dog

24.3.18 THE CLOSER Mahmoud Abbas gets to the end of his reign, the more extreme his language becomes. Recently he spoke about Donald Trump and uttered the words “May your house be destroyed”. In...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Autobiography / Mashreq / Translation

March 19, 2018

Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Arab Women Memoirs, Writing Feminist History’

via Arab Lit (in English) & BY AMALEQ on MARCH 19, 2018 • ( 0 ) ArabLit’s ongoing series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation continues with a conversation between ArabLit’s editor and...

Arab Culture / Literature

March 8, 2018

8 Short Stories by Arab Women for International Women’s Day

Via Arab Literature (in English) & BY MLYNXQUALEY : Your gift for International Women’s Day is eight great short stories by Arab women, in translation, available free online: By artist Helen Zughaib, in an exhibition...

Arab Culture / Mashreq / Uncategorized

February 22, 2018

Amjad Nasser’s ‘Here is the Rose’: ‘We Can No Longer Tell Tragedy from Farce

Via Arab Literature (in English) & MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 22, 2018 • ( 2 ) Amjad Nasser’s Here is the Rose didn’t make the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist yesterday, although...

Arab Culture / Maghreb / Performance / Translation

February 7, 2018

Yto Barrada review: Seismic shifts in Morocco are felt powerfully at the Barbican

Here, the opening of the first review for Yto Barrada’s Agadir installation (see previous post for details): Matthew Collins writes in the Go London section of the Evening Standard: Conceptual art’s present day fall-out...

Arab Culture / Art Exhibition / Exhibition / Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Uncategorized

February 6, 2018

AGADIR: Installation by Yto Barrada & texts by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

Today is the opening of Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s installation AGADIR at the Curve Gallery of the Barbican Center in London. Below, the official announcement & a few of the pages from Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Translation

February 5, 2018

Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation:

Seminars in Poetry and the Free Verse Movement via ArabLit (in English) & BY MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 5, 2018 • ( 0 ) ArabLit’s ongoing series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation continues with...

Arab Culture / Literature / Mashreq / Translation

January 29, 2018

Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: The Public Lecture Series ‘Tarjamat – ترجمات’

BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 29, 2018 • ( 0 ) As part of ArabLit’s ongoing series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation, we spoke with Prof. Rana Issa, at the American University in Beirut,...

Arab Culture / Literature / Maghreb / Translation

January 24, 2018

Court Jesters and Black Mirrors: Translator Alex Elinson on Bringing Moroccan Literature into English

Via Arab Literature (in English) & BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 24, 2018 • ( 0 ) Episode 6 of the Bulaq podcast was built — among other things — on a talk by Moroccan novelist Youssef...