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Here is some few-months-old news that received little attention: In August, Israel's Knesset passed a bill legislating the sale of absentee Palestinian property to private buyers. Full story at IMEU and Guardian UK. What it...
This is your name — a woman said, and vanished through the winding corridor There I see heaven within reach. (Mural, Mahmoud Darwish) Jerusalem is this year's Arab Capital of Culture. As one might expect, that is not completely...
The Complete Review takes a look at Alaa Al Aswany’s Friendly Fire (just out in English) and finds that: Al Aswany’s writing is generally tighter and more consistent in these smaller, more concentrated efforts — perhaps because...
The oud and its musical forefather, the lute, are thought to date back five millennia. Yet in a comparatively short period of time, Tunisian musician Anouar Brahem has liberated the ancient oud from its conventional role...
My gaze is glued to one of today's most eccentric rock'n'roll rebels as he stalks the stage in front of the flirtatiously grand Mairie de Paris like a demented scarecrow, a defrocked undertaker, a panto miscreant of the kind...
Alert! Breyten Breytenbach has two new books coming out.The first, which is already available in South Africa, is called Intimate Stranger: A writing book , and follows in Breytenbach's habitual genre-defying vein. From the...
BALTIMORE - A Canadian man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for not disclosing his work for Saddam Hussein's government when applying for permanent residency in the United States. Forty-ei...
translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? was my first encounter not just with Mahmoud Darwish but with modern Arabic poetry. Many of the poems deal with Darwish's childhood memories of his...
The speech given by his partner Eva Gabrielsson to the Observatorio contra la Violencia Domestica y de Genero FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 Good evening all representatives of Observatorio contra la Violencia Domestica y de...
How many roads must a poet walk down before he is awarded a Nobel? The odds on the Swedish Academy announcing in a weeks time that Robert Zimmerman is the 2009 Nobel Literature laureate are low25/1, according to Ladbrokes.
