In my place I came from, people believe in reincarnation.
I do not believe, or better put it, I did not think about it yet in order to decide if I believe or not. But I inherited from my grandmother and women in...
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Iman Humaydan
Iman HUMAYDAN (novelist, fiction, and script writer; Lebanon) is the founder of ARRAWI, a non-profit center for marginalized youth in Lebanon. Her novels B Mithl Beit, Mithl Beirut [B as in Beirut], Toot Barri [Wild Mulberries], and Hayawat Okhra [Other Lives] have been published in Arabic, French, German, English, Italian and Dutch. Her fourth novel Khamsoun ghraman mena aljannah [Weight of Paradise] has been published in Arabic and English and will come out in German and French in January 2017. Her short stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in German, Swiss, French, and Arab newspapers and magazines. Humaydan co-wrote the screenplay for Chatti ya Deni [Here Comes The Rain], which won the first prize at the 2010 Dubai Film Festival, and the documentary film Asmahan, Une Diva Orientale, and edited the creative writing textbook Kitabat alkitabah (2010). She also edited Beirut Noir, which was published in 2015 by Akashic Books (NY). The writer serves as the co-founder of PEN Lebanon in 2012, and PEN Lebanon president since 2015. At present, Humaydan teaches creative writing in Paris 8 University in France.
Contact: imanhumaydan@yahoo.com
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Excerpt from the novel Other Lives When will you be back home? media_text
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We weren’t used to having big feasts in our house when I was young. It was long after I’d reached adulthood before I found out what it meant for food to be festive. My mother’s kitchen was a place to produce food for... media_text
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In 2008, I came to Paris from Lebanon to attend the annual Salon du livre, for a book launch and signing of my second novel,Wild Mulberries, which had at that time just been translated into French (published by... media_text
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“We are all migrants… Writers are migrants.” This is how the Scottish writerAlison Louise Kennedyended her opening remarks at the seventh annual European Literature Days Festival in Spitz, Austria. These words were... media_text
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As he does every year, my father begins with insuring the white mulberry fields in the villages surrounding ours. The square-shaped, three-story haaras transform into a huge workshop for two whole months.... media_text
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It is not easy to write about writing. As Marguerite Duras once said, one must be stronger than her writing in order to be able to write. When it comes to talking about writing, I think it is more than that: one must... media_text
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