Category: Stolen posts
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“Without Gorky”, a documentary
Originally posted on inni in vani: ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_R9hziWmPU
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Selected: 10 Arabic Short Stories by Women, in Translation, Online
ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY We can all agree that the “must-read” qualifier is a bit overused. I don’t know if you must read these stories, but you’ll enjoy them: By artist Helen Zughaib, in an exhibition “Arab Spring/Unfinished Journeys: Humanizing Politics Through Art.” A detail image of her piece Generations Lost, 2014. Photographer: Stephanie Mitchell. Three short-story…
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Learning Arabic as linguistic solidarity
Sharing an interesting initiative, I am definitely looking forward to the course launch: via Learning Arabic as linguistic solidarity
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 Winner Makena Onjerika —
Kenyan author Makena Onjerika wins the 2018 Caine prize for ‘Fanta Blackcurrant’ her book about Nairobi’s street children securing her the coveted £10,000 prize. Fanta Blackcurrant” which was first published in Wasafiri in 2017. Onjerika is the fourth Kenyan to win the literary award. It was a surprise win for the writer, who graduated at…
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Los devoradores de Mazapán * Mario Chavarría Gonzáles
Originally posted on Claudine Giovannoni: Los devoradores de mazapán * Mario Chavarría Gonzáles (con le illustrazioni di Ruth Angulo) Carvajal Educación S.A. Literatura infanttil – Novela Guatemalteca Editorial Norma – Ciudad de Guatemala , agosto 2013 ISBN 978-9929-42-031-1 ? ? I was myself immersed together with Ximena in the bowels and labyrinths of the old…
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(Interview) Jehan Bseiso: This Is Not A Border.
Originally posted on middle east revised: /Photo by Ahmed Fouda/ Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet, researcher and aid worker. Her poetry has been published inWarscapes, The Funambulist, The Electronic Intifada, and Mada Masr among others. Her book I Remember My Name (2016) is the creative category winner of the Palestine Book Awards. Bseiso is co-editing Making Mirrors a new anthology…
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Bells jingle back
Originally posted on Lucia Sallustio: Vi ripropongo oggi una versione inglese di una poesia di qualche anno fa, con l’augurio che sia un Natale più florido e spensierato per tutti. Bells jingle back Bells jingle back behind the watery crying glass. The air breathes must and onions reminiscent to the heart of days gone by.…
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A literary journey through Macedonia
I asked myself to name at least one Macedonian writer that I knew and my mind went blank. I am reblogging this interesting post which is a good point to start from and discover more about literary Macedonia. Much more can be found on Map World Literature , worth visiting. Christina E. Kramer provides plenty of reasons…
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Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY An open letter from poet-activist Mona Kareem and ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey: “Everything has weight. Your weight is well known to the back walls because your heavy shadow doesn’t give the asphalt, the paint, or the writings stuck on the windows a chance to appear. You also have space, significant…
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Prehistory 101 A
Originally posted on Poems: ? Dear fellow poets and bloggers, How have you been doing? For the last 3 weeks or so I have not been active at all in the blogosphere apart from posting a few poems, primarily because I am trying to launch a YouTube channel to offer my two bits on literature,…
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Prehistory 101 B
Originally posted on Poems: Around three and a half thousand years ago the Indian subcontinent entered the Iron age. Population of the region by then was on its way to reach the fifty million mark, thanks to the fertile soil and sustaining climate. However, by today’s standard, it was still very thinly populated, with a…
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