Uri Avnery: A new Guinness Record
August 17, 2013 I DON’T know if the Guinness Book of World Records has a special section for Chutzpah. a If it does not, it should. That’s the one competition where we might take...
Category: Middle East
Mahmood Darwish, Five Years Already
Last night, just before falling asleep I was reading in Pascal Quignard’s Sur le jadis (volume 2 of his Dernier Royaume series) & came across the following sentence: “C’est une plaie qui cherche son...
Syria, Dilemma
And then this, via the daily Perlentaucher, which strikes me as a sadly accurate assessment of the dilemma, by the Syrian philosopher Sadik J. Al-Azm in the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) in my quick translation,...
Tamam Azzam: Artist from Art to Revolution
Courtesy of Al Mudon electronic newspaper Dima Wannous, a Syrian journalist and daughter of the late noted playwright Saddallah Wannous, has been providing exceptional coverage of the Arab art and cultural scene for...
Poetic Voices of the Muslim World
This is a fabulous site and the whole project is excellent. Poets House & City Lore are to be congratulated for their pioneering work. I participated in the first installment here in New York...
al-Ajami “Jasmine Revolution Poem”
Via Arabic Literature (in English): As We Wait on al-Ajami’s Final Appeal, a New Translation of ‘Jasmine Revolution Poem’ Posted on March 9, 2013 by mlynxqualey | Leave a comment A week and a half ago, a Qatari appeals court...
Shahadat : The City in Translation
Check out this issuu issue of Contemporary Literature in Translation, edited by Sousan Hammad: Intro Note: The rich collection in this issue of Shahadat reflects Sousan Hammad’s unique approach to translation as a form of collective...
Elias Khoury’s Letter to the Real ‘Gate of the Sun’
Bab al-Shams before First posted on January 13, 2013 on Arabic Literature (in English). A few days ago, Palestinians started to erect a new village, Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun) on land seized by...
Avnery on Debate
Here’s Uri Avnery’s take on the 2nd debate & beyond: The Man with the Uzi THERE WAS this young Israeli who was captured by cannibals. They put him in the cooking pot and...
Resistance that Sticks
Via The Electronic Intifada, the opening paras of the following piece by Abraham Greenhouse, a longtime Palestine solidarity and BDS activist based in New York City. Posting on Face Book yesterday on the Egyptian journalist...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux