0-The University of California Book of North African Literature
1-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
Beatriz Leal Riesco reviews Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour (University of California Press, 2013) To bring together for the first time for the English-speaking public a broad range of texts from North Africa, ranging from ancient myths from the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Maghreb'
Asymptote Review of Millennium Vol IV
April 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Literary Magazines & Reviews, Maghreb, Poetry
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The Maghrebi anthology …
December 23rd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Anthology, Book Launch, Maghreb, Uncategorized
…or the book Habib Tengour & I kept referring to as Diwan Iffrikyia all the years we worked on it, & that UCP calls The University of California Book of North African Literature, has now its Amazon site, which does allow you to check out the table of contents and read some (20%, they say) of the [...]
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Diwan Iffrikyia is Here!
December 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Arab Culture, Book Launch, Celebration, Literature, Maghreb, Maghrebi Literature, Poetics, Poetry, Prose, Translation
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour (Editor) order HERE In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the [...]
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Latest signandsight roundups
December 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · "Arab Spring", European History, Israel, Journalism, Maghreb, Uncategorized
I haven’t had the time to catch up with signandsight in recent weeks — but here the site’s most recent posts: Legacy of denial Germany has been rocked by the disclosures surrounding the series of neo-Nazi murders of Turkish citizens. In the wake of these events, Former GDR dissident Freya Klier calls for an honest look [...]
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Khaled Mattawa on the overthrow of Qaddafi
October 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · "Arab Spring", Maghreb, Poetry, Politics
The L.A. Times on 10/15 printed on its “Opinion” page a poem by Libyan-American poet Khaled Mattawa on the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi. Below, the opening lines; you can read the whole work here. After 42 years By Khaled Mattawa Five years old when the dictator took over in a coup — curfew shut our city down [...]
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Tunisia, Elections, & Women’s Rights
October 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · "Arab Spring", Arab Culture, Intellectuals, Islamic Fundamentalists, Maghreb, Politics, Tunisia
Today Tunisians vote to elect an assembly charged with drafting a new constitution that may help bring the hopes of the Jasmine Revolution of last February to fruition by creating the basis for a truly democratic state. The fear is, of course, that the better organized & financed religious groupings — locals such as Rachid al-Ghannouchi & [...]
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Boualem Sansal receives German Peace Prize
October 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · "Arab Spring", Algeria, Intellectuals, Maghreb
This via The Washington Post. Unhappily the talk itself is not yet available either in French or even in German (not to mention English). You can however — if you have German — follow the whole ceremony, the various speeches & Sansal’s address (in French, though with overlaid German simul-translation) here. For those who have [...]
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Re: Tunisia
February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Agitprop, Maghreb, Tunisia
The letter below was sent by Emna Zghal (Tunisian artist living here in NYC) to Ammiel Alcalay — both thought it contained useful info that would be good to publish more widely via NOMADICS. So here we go: Dear Ammiel, It’s amazing amazing amazing! The most enlightened person on Tunisia very early on is Brian [...]
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Hédi Jaouad on Events in Tunisia
January 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Maghreb, Tunisia
Here is an interview Tunisian writer Hédi Jaouad gave to the Times Union newspaper a few days back. Indeed, what is happening in Tunisia is one of the most positive developments in the Arab world in a long, long time. As Hédi says: “Something good could come out of this” — even if this morning, [...]
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