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Happening Now

  • The 2024 longlist for the Saib Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literature in Translation features Ghassan Zaqtan with a poetry collection as well as a novel, and a translation by Nada Faris.  

  • The poetry of Sharron Hass appears in the bilingual volume A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets (Zephyr Press, 2024). 

  • Najwan Darwish’s “A Violet Darkness” in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic, is the  Poem-a Day for 9/19/24.

  • Among the 2024 recipients of the Premio Argentores, given for “the best of the previous year’s authorial production” is Cynthia Edul, for her documentary play “El punto de costura.”

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

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