Nada ALTURKI

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  • Saudi Arabia
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Nada ALTURKI ندى التركي, (nonfiction writer, poet, journalist; Saudi Arabia) is a reporter for the English-language daily newspaper Arab News and has contributed to several regional and international publications, including Canvas Magazine, Voice of America, and The National. She is also a cofounder of Gen INK, a Riyadh-based writing collective dedicated to creating a meaningful space for Saudi writers to connect, and contributed a chapter to the textbook Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers (2022). Alturki is currently writing a collection of poems inspired by her life in Saudi Arabia and time spent in the U.S. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. 

Happening Now

  • 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.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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