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All profits go to our partners in Gaza, Majalla 28.
Find out more & order your copy of our Spring 2024 issue "Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!" here:
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"I have a right to have a mother."
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Gazan poet Heba Abu Nada, who died yesterday in the bombardment.
This is one of poetry and novelist Heba Abu Nada interviews. She is reciting one of her poems. Heartbreaking.
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Download it, read it, print it, share it. We will be distributing a limited # of copies.
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And an associated GoFundMe campaign to rebuild the store:
“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.”
The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
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A new poem by Fady Joudah, in conversation with Refaat al-Areer's "If I Must Die."
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To everyone who is sending us emails asking to sign in support of Adania Shibli and Minor Detail, we are grateful for every single one of you.
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Saqi is offering 20 ebooks about Palestine for free from their website until Monday 17 May, including Mahmoud Darwish's A RIVER DIES OF THIRST, tr. Catherine Cobham, the anthology A MAP OF ABSENCE ed. Atef Alshaer, Sayed Kashua's NATIVE, more:
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Thanks to
@lithub
for putting together this list of 40 beautiful & brilliant Palestinian books:
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Ok not overthinking it 10 beloved Palestinian novels (🧵1/?)
Minor Detail (A Shibli tr EJ)
Men in the Sun (G Kanafani tr HK)
Said the Pessoptimist (E Habibi tr TL/SKJ)
Wondrous Journeys (S Nimr)
Passage to the Plaza (S Khalifeh tr SH)
Book of Disappearance (I Azem tr SA)
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A 3D printer for medical devices, Dr. Moeen Alalool, Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf, Gaza's main Covid testing site, an MSF trauma clinic.
This is the targeting your $735 million in precision-guided weapons goes to support.
Gaza’s first 3D printer, which manufactured medical devices for years, has been destroyed by an Israeli air raid.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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5000 words on this photo of a US military Arabic immersion class (photo FP).
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Walid Daqqa, author of the award-winning YA novel The Oil’s Secret Tale and a book about his life in prison, A Parallel Time.
Breaking: After being subjected to severe torture and international campaigns for his release, Israel announces the death of the Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who spent 37 years in Israeli prisons. in one of its prisons.
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The Samir Mansour Bookshop was one of the few places where Gazan writers (Hedaya and others) could launch their literary works out into the world; now it's destroyed.
ابنة البحر مجموعتي القصصية رأت النور في مكتبة منصور بغزة كانت المطبوعة الأولى التي أستطيع فيها إعداد حفل توقيع يليق بها وبغزة.. في مكتبة منصور اصبح لها وجها ويدا وصوتا وحياة! قتلوا ابنة البحر. قتلوا مئات وآلاف الكتب والذكريات قتلوا عناوين الحب في غزة
#ابنة_البحر
#مكتبة_سمير_منصور
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March 13 is
#MahmoudDarwishDay
, as the great poet was born on this day in 1941.
13 remembrances:
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Have been told that some publishers at Frankfurt are putting these signs up in their stands
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Launching soon, special double issue in collaboration with Majalla 28, co-edited by Mohammed Zaqzooq and Mahmoud al-Shaer, w/contributions from more than 20 writers in Gaza, + classic works, art, fiction, & poetry centering Gaza.
All profit from sales+ads go to our Gaza partners
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Another extraordinary book that's available free in ebook form November 29-December 4 for
#ReadPalestine
week is Atef Abu Saif's THE DRONE EATS WITH ME, published by
@commapress
.
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We know about 27 Arabic books forthcoming in English translation in 2024, from new poetry by award-winning Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan (tr. Robin Moger) to a YA historical fantasy by Algerian author Djamila Morani (tr. Sawad Hussain). A highlight 🧵.
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So many excellent new & forthcoming books by Palestinian writers; here are just a few:
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For the forthcoming CATS issue we are looking for photos of Arab authors + cats for our "gallery" feature.
If you have such photos we would be so delighted. (If you know who to contact about permissions, even better.)
Share w/us: info
@arablit
.org.
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Our timeline is filled with Khaled Khalifa (1964-2023): .
This image is from Lina Sinjab's beautiful short documentary film of Khaled, "Exiled at Home." You can (re)watch it on YouTube:
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On Saturday, November 25th, writers from around the world gather for a 24-hour online reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. The reading begins online at 3pm Palestinian time.
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48 hours until the launch of the debut ArabLit Quarterly.
🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛🕜🕝🕞🕟🕠🕡🕢🕣🕤🕥🕦🕧🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛🕜🕝🕞🕟🕠🕡🕢🕣🕤🕥🕦🕧
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Literary Palestine: Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford, will lead and coordinate a series of participative seminars to read and discuss Palestine through its literatures
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Introducing Fikra Magazine, “a Project by Palestinians and for Palestinians
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We have updated the resource "A Gathering: Palestinian Poems with & for the Now"; if you know of other poems we should add, please let us know.
Basically: it is a gathering of poems, mostly composed in the last 3 months, by Palestinian writers.
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In light of Frankfurt Book Fair's decision to "side" with Israel yesterday & their decision not to hold Adania Shibli's award event, award-winning Algerian novelist Said Khatibi has cancelled his participation in this year's Frankfurt
@Book_Fair
.
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anyone else hiding classic photos of arab authors and cats?
A Middle Eastern-style
#Caturday
(and one of my favorite finds): a portrait of the Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq al-Hakim, looking magnificent with a cat on each shoulder! Published in the magazine Ākhir Sāʿah, 1948.
#twitterstorians
#Arabicliterature
#headshotgoals
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Release Party for First 2020 Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: The Road
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Our update from the Frankfurt Book Fair, with comments from those who have pulled out.
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We, too, celebrate the work of Ghassan Kanafani.
A recent translation of a short story by Kanafani tr. Rachel Green:
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Cannot even keep up with this line of intellectual bankruptcy and cowardice from art & educational institutions.
Christie’s Pulled Two Works by a Prominent Middle Eastern Artist From Sale After a Complaint. A consignor has suggested that the paintings by Lebanese artist Ayman Baalbaki could have been mistakenly associated with Islamist extremism.
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@jemmie_kip
@Kuukuwa_
You can read a translation of Ibn Battuta's Tuhfat al-anzar fi gharaaib al-amsar wa ajaaib al-asfar (), or there are books only about his travels in sub-Saharan Africa, like "Ibn Battuta in Black Africa"
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We are again working to update this resource, "Palestinian Poems with & for the Now" -- poems by Palestinians, mostly written in the last four months.
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A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation
Thirteen Maqams for an Afterlife
by Fady Joudah
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In his former office, settlers set alight many books, including religious books and poetry. “This is my archive,” he lamented. “Who burns books?"
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I am sorry
I couldn't
edit
your thing today
even though you saw I was
active on twitter
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More about Passages Through Genocide (), an online project that collates and disseminates texts written by Gazans living through the current Israeli assault, today on ArabLit:
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Women Writing in Arabic: 10 Poets to Read Now
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Women in Translation Month: 10 Recommended Books from 2020
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Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
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This thread is everything you need on a Sunday.
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It is personal to us because our contributors are there. Friends & colleagues; their kids are there. & their kids' friends, their frenemies, their neighbors, the people who sell them bread & repair their phones' cracked screens. Who fix their teeth, who teach them. It's personal.
It is personal to me, my sisters and brothers are there. Our kids are there. Our own are there. And it should feel so to every single human being.
Don't stop talking about Gaza!
Don't stop praying for Gaza!
#CeaseFireInGaza
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30 Reads: A Month of Algerian Literature by Women
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Novel by Palestinian Prisoner Basim Khandaqji Wins 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
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Forthcoming 2023: Arabic Literature in English Translation
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Hi book media, please don't repeat Frankfurt
@Book_Fair
's "clarifying statement" that says, "Of course, the Frankfurt book fair is a platform for both Israeli and Palestinian voices."
...without challenging it. Unless you have found any events with Palestinians. We have not.
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This week, for
#WomeninTranslationMonth
, we're looking at prison narratives written by women. Although it's a genre often associated with men (Sonallah Ibrahim, Abdelrahman Munif), women have made key contributions, both to prison memoir & fiction.
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30 Reads: A Month of Iraqi Women Writers
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"the United Nations' definition of a child" yes thanks
@guardian
we weren't the ones uncertain of what a child is
The
@guardian
has *finally* noted its error, explaining the disparity between Israeli "children" & Palestinian "people aged 18 or younger" as not intended to be insensitive
That's great but unclear why this happened & why the correction was initially made secretly without a note
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Launching Today: ArabLit Quarterly Summer 2020, the CRIME Issue
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Introducing ‘The Mu`allaqat for Millennials’
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"Heba’s writing has given so many people hope in these incomprehensibly dark times. We can honor her memory by sharing her work, and by trying to help her grieving, injured family find some safety and peace."
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Also recirculating our "Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!" call for subs for our Spring 2024 issue.
Particularly looking for prose: historical essays (an examination of the history of Gaza's flowers / tatreez / etc), short stories, translations of classical work++ More:
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"Not Just Passing."
A poem by Hiba Abu Nada (who died in October in her home, under Israeli bombardment) newly translated by Huda Fakhreddine:
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From
@GlobalLitinLibs
, a look at literature by
@MouridBarghouti
, Radwa Ashour, and Tamim al-Barghouti.
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SIX DAYS until June 15, the launch of our Summer 2021 issue (🍽️THE KITCHEN), edited by Nour Kamel, bursting with amazing writing about food, food memories, food histories, and the contested spaces in which we eat it.
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Adania Shibli is a contributor we have been deeply honored to publish at ArabLit Quarterly. Anyone smearing her incisive literary work as "ideological and inhumane" is off their nut.
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There are more than 600 publishers, agents, lit-fest organizers, and authors who have signed, with many more in our inboxes. We apologize for not being able to keep up with the email & are grateful to every person writing in, for supporting a key Palestinian literary voice.
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Launching the Spring 2023 RAIN Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: ‘Pouring All Night Long’
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now I want to do a rain issue 😭
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“But the wiping off of a whole community at once is extremely rare, and it seems like Israel was making use of the fact that everyone’s attention is currently set elsewhere to move forward with this inhumane act,” he said in reference to the US election.
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This morning, we have a tender poem from Gaza, by the poet & writer Basman Aldirawi:
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The BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere website is up.
Events will run July 9-11 & will include 5 vibrant panels and 10+ short pitch films from translators.
Thanks in particular to
@RSLiterature
for their support &
@mohinigupta28
for guidance.
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Your gift for International Women’s Day (
#IWD2018
) is eight great short stories by Arab women, in translation, available free online.
1) “Pearls on a Branch,” from the collection of folktales Pearls on a Branch, ed. Najlaa Khoury, tr. Inea Bushnaq
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Jokha al-Harthi and Marilyn Booth Win 2019 Man Booker International for ‘Celestial Bodies’
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Winner of 2022 ArabLit Story Prize ‘Captures the Essence of What a Short Story Should Be’
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In 2019, for the first time, women writers make up the majority on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist.
Don't @ me.
Novels of ‘Family, Memory, Disappointment’ Make 2019 IPAF Shortlist
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ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
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10 Books: Influential Arabic Nonfiction by Women, 15th C-Present
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‘Dear Tayeb Salih’
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On the ‘Boom’ of Syrian Literature in Berlin
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Launch of ArabLit Quarterly: Winter/Spring 2019
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Palestinian Poet, Translator, and Anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi Dies at 95
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This letter came about spontaneously after the announcement from Frankfurt Book Fair about taking Israel's "side" while bombardment was ongoing & the removal of Adania Shibli's event -- an awards ceremony -- from the fair (& the initial *wrong* statement that she supported this)
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PEN Berlin issues a statement in support of Adania Shibli and MINOR DETAIL, and of having her voice at the Frankfurt
@Book_Fair
.
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The new SONG-themed issue of ArabLit Quarterly, guest-edited by
@ZidanSports
, is set to launch in five days.
A few previews as we count down to March 15.
Oud poems by 10th c polymath Kushajim, tr. Salma Harland.
"Each and every organ in her body has a throat"
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Today on
@arablit
:
@griffinpoetry
prize-winning Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan's "By Force of Habit."
From his new collection "Strangers in Light Coats," beautifully tr. Robin Moger, out this month from
@seagullbooks
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I am also in touch with Adania and, yes, as Bhakti says, this statement is not true; the decision was not taken with the author, who did want to take the stage to reflect on the role of literature in these very cruel and painful times.
@nytimes
please correct
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"The book fair furore should serve as a dire warning."
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Nakba Day: Free Palestinian Ebooks, Magazines, More Recommended Reading
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Don't waste your one
@thebookseller
freebie on Juergen Boos when there's this piece about booktok's embrace of Adania's "Minor Detail."
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