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March 22, 2013

Iraqi Authors on ‘A Decade of Despair’

Via & thanks to the as always excellent blog Arab Literature (in English): Posted on March 21, 2013 by mlynxqualey | Leave a comment This is the month, the week, the fifteen minutes that the world is grappling with...

Amazigh Poetry / Anthology / Arab Culture / Berber Literature / Book Review / Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

March 12, 2013

Ron Silliman on Millennium 4

Extracted from a larger piece on Silliman’s blog on a number of new & recent anthologies (check out the whole post here): (…) Another anthology available from UC Press that is a “must own” item is Poems...

Arab Culture / Art Exhibition / Intellectuals / Literature / Middle East / Painting / Performances / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

March 10, 2013

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...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Human rights / Middle East / Poetry / Translation

March 9, 2013

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...

Algeria / Arab Culture / Essays / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

March 5, 2013

Tengour’s “Exile is my Trade” Reviewed

Laurie Price’s review on Amazon: Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader, edited & translated by Pierre Joris (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry 2012) (Paperback) To this reader, Exile Is My Trade turned out to...

Arab Culture / Film / Iraq / Poetry

February 28, 2013

“Fire Won’t Eat Me Up:” Iraqi Poet Manal al Sheik

In Roxana Vilk’s short film, “Fire Won’t Eat Me Up,” Manal Al Sheikh says it is dangerous for her to be a writer in her hometown of Nineveh, Iraq, so she now engages readers...

Arab Culture / Censorship / Human rights / Petition / Poetry

February 25, 2013

Qatari Poet’s Sentence Not Overturned, Cut to 15 Years

This just in, via Arab Literature (in English) blog by mlynxqualey The Qatari appeals court today reduced the sentence of Mohammed al-Ajami, the poet jailed for his work, from life in prison to a long stint of...

Arab Culture / Books / Film / Israel / Palestine / Uncategorized

January 22, 2013

Stolen Books, Stolen Identity:

This via the excellent Arab Literature (in English) blog: What Did Israel Do with Palestinians’ Literary Heritage? Nora Lester Murad recently went to see Benny Brunner’s film, The Great Book Robbery: By Nora Lester Murad The...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Censorship / Human rights / Poet / Poetry

December 18, 2012

Free Qatari Poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami

I signed the French version of this a couple days ago, but will also now sign the English version. Please do the same — there are indeed places in the world where you can...

Arab Culture / Iraq / Poetry / Translation

December 15, 2012

Nostalgia, My Enemy

Saadi Youssef, born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq, has lived in exile for some 30 years now — currently in London, England. Mahmood Darwish has called him a major influence, saying that “Saadi Youssef,...