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Arab Culture / Mashreq / Poetry / Translation

August 29, 2016

BAALBECK by Etel Adnan

It is a pleasure & an honor for Nomadics blog to publish BAALBECK, a sequence of poems by Etel Adnan translated by Sarah Riggs over the next 4 or 5 days. Below, the opening...

Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

July 25, 2016

The First Abdellatif Laâbi Collection of 2016 Out Now

via Arab Lit (in English) BY MLYNXQUALEY on JULY 25, 2016 • ( 0 ) There are two volumes of poetry by Prix Goncourt winner Abdellatif Laâbi out in fresh English translations this year:...

Celebration / Conference / Experimental Writing / Intellectuals / Maghrebi Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

July 16, 2016

This weekend I will travel to Asilah, Morocco, to take part on coming Tuesday in a day of homage for the great arabophone poet Mohammed Bennis, in the context of the 38th International Cultural Moussem at Al Moutamid...

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...

Africa / Arab Culture / Books / Literature / Maghrebi Literature / Translation / Uncategorized

May 26, 2016

‘Lands in Solidarity’ and ‘Resonances’: Producing African Literatures in Algeria

Via Arab LIterature (in English) & MLYNXQUALEY on MAY 26, 2016 • ( 0 ) Nadia Ghanem talks with Apic editions and Barzakh editions, two Algerian publishing houses trying to promote literary exhange in Africa:...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Translation / Uncategorized

May 18, 2016

Kareem James Abu-Zeid on Al-Mutanabbi and the art of translation

Criticism / Experimental Writing / Intellectuals / Literature / Magazine / Poetics / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

May 1, 2016

A Sulfur Anthology: Clayton Eshleman, ed.

Clayton Eshleman started his first magazine, Caterpillar, in New York City in the fall of 1967 — the very same moment I moved from Europe to the US. It wasn’t until some time in...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Mashreq / Middle East / Poetry Festival / Poetry readings / Translation

April 20, 2016

Arabic Poetry Conference @ Boise State University

ARAB POETRY CONFERENCE مرءتمر الثعر العربي Thursday 4/21/16 3-5pm. Panel: On Arab Literature Today. Bishop Barnwell Room 3-4: MAGHREB: Pierre Joris & Habib Tengour present Poems for the Millennium Maghreb Anthology 4-5: MASHREQ: Osama Alomar...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Poetry / Refugee Poetry / Translation

April 6, 2016

Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches ‘The Great Flight’

via Arab Literature (in English) &BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 6, 2016 • ( 0 ) On Wednesday, April 13 at London’s Southbank Centre will host the launch of “The Great Flight,” Modern Poetry in Translation’s refugee-focussed...

Poem / Translation

April 1, 2016

Mikhl Likht addresses Ezra Pound…

…in a poem translated from Yiddish & with a note by Ariel Resnikoff. E.P. After the Yiddish of Mikhl Likht A Ezra : Calm to no avail in classic banalities & offtimes magic clown...