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The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
Should a visitor from another planet happen to arrive here and look around at the reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea without the usual lenses of distortion, she would see that in Israel/Palestine—the land stretching from the river to the sea which has been under one rule for over forty ... Read More »
فضيحة بوعلام صنصال تدغدغ الوجدان الاسرائيلي
يشارك الكاتب الجزائري الفرنكوفوني بوعلام صنصال في «مهرجان الأدباء العالمي» الذي تعقده مؤسسة «مشكانوت شأنانيم» في القدس بين 13 و18 أيار (مايو) الجاري. وسيظهر خلاله ضمن ندوة ثنائية تجمع بينه وبين الكاتب الإسرائيلي أ. ب. يهوشواع تعقد في 16 الجاري، وسيكون محورها حوار الثقافات. وعشية هذه الندوة سيشترك في لقاء مفتوح مع ... Read More »
Call for Artists: Watermill Center/ArteEast 2013 Residency (January-June 2013)
In 2011, The Watermill Center and ArteEast partnered to launch an annual residency supporting the development of a new work by artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. The residency is accompanied by an artist talk with the community about the work done in residence. The 2011/2012 ArteEast artist ... Read More »
The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Showcasing Subjectivity
In September 2011, a group of young Arab women, myself included, conspired to organize a DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DC-PFAF). Inspired by the gigantic models established in Toronto, Chicago, London, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Boston, we decided to emulate this model in Washington, DC. We believed it ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amy Motlagh (AM): Part of the study of literature is obsessive re-reading. In this case, I became preoccupied with what I felt was a narrow ... Read More »
Love Bomb: How Deep Is Israel's Love for Iran?
If you follow the news in the Middle East, you have probably come across the online sensation known as the “Israel-Loves-Iran” campaign. The campaign, launched by Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry and his wife Michal Tamir, emerges amidst rising tensions between Iran and the West over the country’s nuclear program, ... Read More »
Image Fever: Arab Photography Now
Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (eds.), Arab Photography Now. Kehrer: Heidelberg & Berlin, 2011. [This review is forthcoming in Goethe Institut's publication Fikrun Wa Fann.] Rose Issa and Michket Krifa, curators of art from the Arab world, recently published a collection of photographs by Arab artists in a major ... Read More »
The Barbarian Has to Keep It Real: Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon
[The following interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon was conducted by Nahrain Al-Musawi and originally published in Al-Akhbar English on 2 May 2012.] Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born novelist, poet, translator, filmmaker, and professor. His 2003 widely translated novel I’jaam is a fictional prison memoir. The ... Read More »
Birds of Darkness In The Egyptian Sky
The Misdemeanor Court in al-Haram, Cairo held up a three-month prison sentence on Tuesday against Adel Imam, one of the most popular comedians in the region. He was accused by Islamists of insulting religion in his films, some dating back 30 years. The Birds of Darkness, from the title of one of Adel Imam’s most ... Read More »
Crossroads in Iranian Cinema: Interview with Hamid Naficy
Hamid Naficy of Northwestern University is a leading authority of Iranian cinema His most recent four-volume series, A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Covers the Iranian cinema from late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first cinema. Hamid Naficy has published extensively about theories of exile and ... Read More »
April Culture
This month's batch includes new translations of fiction from Lebanon and an essay on Syrian art. * An Excerpt from Elias Khoury's As Though She Were Sleeping, tr. Marilyn Booth. * Maymana Farhat, After Daraa; Syrian Art Today * An Excerpt from Venus Khoury-Ghata's The House of Nettles, tr. Marilyn ... Read More »
As Though She Were Sleeping
[This excerpt is from Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping (Ka’annaha Na’ima) which was translated by Marilyn Booth and published by Archipelago Books this month. Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her ... Read More »
After Daraa; Syrian Art Today
In less than a year, much of the Damascus art scene has been brought to a standstill by events surrounding the Syrian uprising. Some artists continue to reside in Syria and are producing with apparent impetus—others mirror their efforts but have relocated to neighboring Arab states. Although limited, recent activity ... Read More »
Marcel Khalife: An Interview
Marcel Khalife is one of the Arab world's most revered and celebrated cultural icons. Composer, singer, and oud player, he is best known as the musical voice of students, intellectuals, laborers, and all those committed to social justice, freedom, and human dignity. His arrangements, especially those inspired by ... Read More »
و. س. ميروين: قصيدتان
[و. س. ميروين من كبار شعراء أمريكا الأحياء. ولد في نيويورك عام ١٩٢٧. ترجم الشعر عن الفرنسية والإسبانية واللاتينية والبرتغالية. حاز على العديد من الجوائز منها جائزة البولتزر وجائزة والاس ستيفنز. يعيش منذ ثلاثين عاماً في هاواي.] قصيدتان و. س. ميروين ملاحظة تذكّرْ كيف تجيء ... Read More »
Vénus Khoury-Ghata: The House of Nettles
Tireless mother, worthy descendant of a line of peasant women working as long as daylight lasted, as long as night permitted them to tell a lentil from a pebble. Only sleep could still the hands that washed, sewed, cut, peeled, kneaded, cradled. Sleep vertiginous as a stone hurled into a well. Hands that resisted ... Read More »
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Mara Naaman, Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In January and February of 2011, ... Read More »
Let's Talk About Sex
This week Foreign Policy published a “Sex Issue.” They explained their decision to feature a special issue with these words Foreign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue…is dedicated…to the consideration of how and why sex—in all the various meanings of the word—matters in shaping the world's politics. Why? ... Read More »
Outside Looking In
City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982. The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 22 February – 5 May 2012. City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952-1982 is an exhibit of design work produced by world-famous architects and firms for the booming Iraqi capital during the mid-twentieth century. Beginning from the ... Read More »
Visualizing Revolution: The Politics of Paint in Tahrir
On 2 April, the Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo hosted “Visualizing Revolution: The Epic Murals of Tahrir.” Three artists, Alaa Awad, Ammar Abo Bakr, and Hanaa El Degham, spoke about their work along with journalist and collaborator ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Farzaneh Milani (FM): In a way, Words, not Swords is a rebuttal to my first book, Veils and Words. The central argument of Veils and ... Read More »
هدى بركات: عن مكان بقي موطناً ولم يتحول وطناً
- سأبدأ بعنوان الرواية ”ملكوت هذه الأرض“ المستوحى من تعبير "إنجيلي"، ما الذي يعنيه لك أنت، ولماذا هذا الخيار؟ هدى بركات: العنوان هو، كما يبدو واضحاً، تحوير لـ"ملكوت السماوات". وفي متن الرواية عناصر عديدة تجتمع لإعطاء العنوان جملة من الإيحاءات. بداية من موقع الأحداث في جبال ومرتفعات عالية يفخر ... Read More »
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Something of Palestine Emerges
2012 London Palestine Film Festival. 20 April – 3 May 2012. For more information and a complete schedule of films, click here. Each year, for the two weeks of the London Palestine Film Festival, there are a bunch of people whose social life for that fortnight becomes the festival. Others dip in and out, while still ... Read More »
Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to retain white friends, you must adhere to a number of sacred rules: the stuff white people like. For those who are not ... Read More »
Art and Subversion: An Interview with Omar Kholeif
Subversion. Featuring work by Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Khaled Hafez, Larissa Sansour, Marwa Arsanios, Sharif Waked, Sherif El-Azma, Tarzan and Arab, and Wafaa Bilal. Curated by Omar Kholeif. Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK. 14 April - 5 June 2012, preview/symposium 13 April ... Read More »
Sonia M'Barek: A Musical Innovator Rooted in Tradition
Sonia M’Barek, Proshansky Auditorium, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, 23 March 2012. In traditional Arabic music, a vocalist is not just referred to as a singer, but is instead spoken of as a mutrib/mutribah. Literally translated, they are the people who bring tarab, or musical ecstasy. As ... Read More »
جميل بشير: شلالات
جميل بشير (الموصل، ١٩٢١- لندن ١٩٧٧) موسيقي وملحن عراقي بارز. درس العود والكمان في معهد الموسيقى في بغداد وتخرج عام ١٩٤٣. عمل في تدريس الموسيقى كما عمل رئيساً للفرقة الموسيقية والقسم الموسيقي في مديرية الإذاعة والتلفزيون في بغداد. له العديد من المؤلفات الموسيقية. Read More »
Muzaffar al-Nawwab: Disavowal
[Today marks the 78th anniversary of the founding of The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP). Its recent history, especially after the 2003 invasion and occupation, notwithstanding, the ICP has a remarkable history of struggling for justice and freedom beginning in the early decades of the 20th century. It was one of the most ... Read More »
Threads of Narrating the Arab Spring
“Narrating the Arab Spring,” Cairo University, 18-20 February 2012 Many of us have spoken and thought about those who we wished would have been present to witness—and perhaps participate in—the revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woman stands up in a plenary at the ... Read More »
Amman Critical Language Scholarship: Integrating Language and Culture
Following the September 11 attacks, the US government designated a number of languages as “critical need languages”; Arabic was and still is, of course, on top of the list. In order to ensure enough Americans are learning these “critical need languages” and to ensure higher proficiency levels and deeper understandings ... Read More »
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