Show me the Money
There are few better ways to actually propel me to an exhibition than to send out ‘last day’ notifications. Hence pottering down to the People’s History Museum in Manchester with … Continue reading
New review: ‘Men of Capital’
Electronic Intifada, 14th January 2016 Defying stereotypes of Mandate-period Palestinians as divided between a distant, dislocated upper class of “notables” and a majority of uneducated, rebellious peasants, Seikaly charts the … Continue reading
Newly Translated: Poems to Read for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14
There will be two readings for Ashraf in Edinburgh, one at the Department for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh: https://www.facebook.com/events/575671979265276/ and one at the Scottish Poetry Library … Continue reading
Novels of Jewish-Muslim ‘Miscegenation’: A Thriving World
My new post for @ArabLit on Muslim-Jewish and Arab-Jewish romances in Arabic fiction: ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY Demand for Dorit Rabinyan’s Borderlife has apparently surged since the novel was excluded from Israel’s high-school Hebrew-literature … Continue reading