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April 17, 2012

Sinan Antoon’s Iraq War Diary

Last month, the excellent Jadaliyya site published extracts from poet-writer-translator Sinan Antoon’s Iraq war-time diary entitled A Barbarian in Rome. Below the opening paras: [The following are excerpts from a longer text in the form of...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Book Review / Middle East / Obituaries

March 1, 2012

Finding Bayt Across Borders of Stone

A very moving tribute to Anthony Shadid (& simultaneously an excellent review of Shadid’s memoir House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East) by Syrian writer Amal Hanano, published yesterday...

Agitprop / Middle East / Syria

December 15, 2011

Syria, Ten Months Later

Today the Syrian revolution enters into its 10th month; 15 December is the 276th day on which blood has flowed. الثورة السورية دخلت شهرها العاشر اليوم/ 15/12/2011 = هو اليوم الـ 276 الدمويّ Statistics...

"Arab Spring" / Middle East

August 1, 2011

A Scream Has No Alphabet:

An Interview with Aïcha Arnaout by Cécile Oumhani — which I posted a few days back in French, has just been published in an English translation by World Without Borders. You can read it...

Arab Culture / Demonstrations / Egypt / History / Human rights / Journalism / Middle East / Uncategorized

February 12, 2011

Al-Ahram’s Special Issue

The 25 January Revolution (Special issue) Egypt, after birth pangs The showdown over the future of the country is far from over. Assem El-Kersh discusses the prospects and implications 25, 28 Youssef Rakha on the...

Arab Culture / Egypt / Freedom of Speech / Middle East / Poetry

February 4, 2011

The Poetry of Revolt

Drawing again on the excellent Jadaliyya site here are the opening paragraphs of an article speaking to the poetry — not meant metaphorically — that the Egyptian uprising is giving birth to: The Poetry of Revolt...

Arab Culture / Demonstrations / Human rights / Journalism / Middle East / Uncategorized

February 3, 2011

From Cairo

The photos above are by our friend the poet Belle Gironda who is teaching at the American University in Cairo and returned to that city a or so week ago. Yesterday she took a whole batch...

Arab Culture / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism / Middle East / Politics

January 29, 2011

Dead-Enders on the Potomac

Here are the opening paragraphs of a just published editorial on MERIP (The Middle East Report). You can read the rest of the excellent analysis here. From the Editors January 29, 2011 Every US...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine

August 19, 2010

Gaza: Between the Fence & a Hard Place

Yesterday I was reading the forthcoming translation of Mahmoud Darwish‘s first — 1973 — collection of prose essays on Palestine. This is an extremely moving book, and I will come back to it when...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine / West Bank

March 5, 2010

A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST IDF GALA DINNER

JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE 2010 ANNUAL NY GALA DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF) NO to the IDF’s brutality! NO to the Occupation and Siege...