Middle East – Nomadics

Middle East / Palestinian people / Uncategorized / Unnatural Disaster / Writing

March 27, 2020

Mahmood Darwish: Opening Pages of “Memory of Forgetfulness”

Getting up on the first morning after we started shelter-in-place here in New York, I went as always straight to the kitchen to start the ritual of making coffee — & immediately thought that...

Book Launch / Censorship / Freedom of Speech / Literature / Memoir / Middle East

April 11, 2019

Behrouz Boochani: “This is the deepest form of violence in the world“

by Holly Young for Spex magazine Behrouz Boochani has written his latest book through text messages from a detention camp in the South Pacific – and was awarded Australia’s richest literary accolade for it. In...

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 / Exile / Film / Literature / Middle East / Palestine

January 19, 2018

Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation:

‘Palestinian Literature and Film’ BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 15, 2018 • ( 0 ) ArabLit’s ongoing series on Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation continues with a conversation between ArabLit’s editor and Prof. Joseph Farag,...

Arab Culture / Israel / Literature / Mashreq / Middle East / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetry / Translation

September 18, 2017

35 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas

via MLYNXQUALEY & the always excellent Arabi Literature (in English): on SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 • ( 0 ) It’s now been thirty-five years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. It...

History / Israel / Middle East

September 1, 2017

Uri Avnery: Crusaders & Zionists

September 2, 2017 A FEW days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. The sunbeams were dancing on the little waves, the mysterious ruins of...

Middle East / Palestine / Poetry

April 18, 2017

Forthcoming: ‘I Don’t Want This Poem to End,’ New Collection of Work by and About Mahmoud Darwish

BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 18, 2017 • ( 1 ) Interlink Books recently added to their website a page for I Don’t Want This Poem to End: Early and Late Poems, by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by...

Middle East / Syria

April 14, 2017

Uri Avnery” CUI BONO?

April 15, 2017 CUI BONO – “who benefits” – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime. Since I was a detective myself for a short time in my...

Arab Culture / Book Review / Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Mashreq / Middle East / Poetics

April 6, 2017

Leonard Schwartz’s “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises”

An interesting review of Leonard Schwartz’s book by Kathleen Eamon just appeared on the talisman website. Here the opening paragraphs, link to the full article below: Leonard Schwartz’s The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (The University...

Language / Mashreq / Middle East / Translation

June 25, 2016

‘Manifesto for Translation’ Signed by Adonis, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Sonallah Ibrahim, Others

via Arab literature (in English) & by MLYNXQUALEY on JUNE 25, 2016 • ( 2 ) More than twenty prominent writers laid their signatures beneath a “Manifesto for Translation” aimed at Mediterranean states: The signatories incude...