{"id":8411,"date":"2012-06-01T09:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:17:34","slug":"writers-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/writers-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

This in via the Arab Literature (in English)<\/strong> site, where<\/a> you can also read the rest of the article, and a further range of materials\u00a0concerning\u00a0Arab literature in translation, such as their previous post<\/a> detailing what new books translated from Arabic are coming out this year.<\/p>\n

\n

In Praise of \u2026 Khaled\u00a0Khalifa<\/h3>\n
Posted on\u00a0June 1, 2012<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0mlynxqualey<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Leave a comment<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n
\n

\n\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Even after being beaten last Saturday, and having his left hand broken,\u00a0Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa continues to write.<\/p>\n

Khalifa said, in a phone interview last week\u00a0with theLA Times<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThey [the ones who attacked him] were approximately five men. It all happened on the street. My left hand is broken. I write with my right hand, but typing on the computer is difficult now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khalifa had been participating in the funeral of a friend, Rabi Ghazzy, who died from a gunshot wound to the head.\u00a0According to\u00a0Le Monde<\/em><\/a>, other artists and critics at the funeral were also arrested or beaten.<\/p>\n

The incident was reminiscent of the attack on\u00a0celebrated Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat<\/a>\u00a0last summer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[ctd….]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This in via the Arab Literature (in English) site, where you can also read the rest of the article, and a further range of materials\u00a0concerning\u00a0Arab literature in translation, such as their previous post detailing...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,11,64,997,103,1],"tags":[1229],"class_list":["post-8411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-arab-culture","category-literature","category-syria","category-translation","category-uncategorized","tag-khaled-khalifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}