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SUMMARY:U.S. Book Tour: "Stories from the Center of the World" with editor Jordan Elgrably and contributing writers
DESCRIPTION:RSVP form below. \n🗓️ WHAT: Book launch of new Middle East fiction anthology  \n🗣️ WHO: Editor Jordan Elgrably and various writers read from Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction  \n📍 WHERE: San Francisco\, Berkeley\, Sacramento\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, Chicago\, Washington DC\, New York City. Each city has its own event link: \n\nMAY 9 (In-person & online) San Francisco\, City Lights\, with Sarah AlKahly-Mills\, 7 pm: https://citylights.com/events/jordan-elgrably/\nMAY 10 (In-person) Berkeley\, Books Inc with Sarah AlKahly-Mills\, 6 pm: https://www.booksinc.net/event/jordan-elgrably-books-inc-berkeley\nMAY 11 (In-person) Sacramento\, Capital Books\, 5 pm: https://capitalbooksonk.com/jordan-elgrably\nMAY 16 (In-person) Los Angeles\, Beyond Baroque with Reza Sixo Safai\, 8 pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-launch-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-new-middle east-fiction-tickets-880484200947?aff=oddtdtcreator \nMAY 17 (In-person) Las Vegas with Ahmed Naji\, The Writers Block\, 7 pm: https://www.thewritersblock.org/events/upcoming-events\nMAY 20 (In-person) Chicago at Northwestern University Sahar Mustafah\, 4 pm: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/615352 & https://www.facebook.com/events/1656522558491274/ \nMAY 21 (In-person & online) Washington DC\, Busboys and Poets\, with Natasha Tynes\, 6 pm: https://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-evt-38480538/\nMAY 22 (In-person) NYC at the NYPL Tompkins Square\, 6 pm with Omar El Akkad: https://arteeast.org/news-events/stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-readings-from-jordan-elgrably-and-omar-el-akkad/\n\n\n[wpforms id=”33041″ title=”true” description=”true”] \nDonations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \n\n  \nShort stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North  African origins\, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the  global Arab/Muslim world. \n“Provocative and subtle\, nuanced and surprising . . . these stories demonstrate how this  complicated and rich region might best be approached— through the power of literature…” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Committed   \nStories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the greater Middle East or SWANA — a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia\,  through the Middle East and Turkey\, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included  here come from a wide range of cultures and countries\, including Palestine\, Syria\,  Pakistan\, Iran\, Lebanon\, Egypt\, and Morocco\, to name a few.  \nIn “Asha and Haaji\,” Hanif Kureishi takes up the cause of outsiders who become  uprooted when war or disaster strikes and they flee for safe haven. In Nektaria Anastasiadou’s  “The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff\,” two students in Istanbul from  different classes—and religions that have often been at odds with one another—believe they  can overcome all obstacles. MK Harb’s story\, “Counter Strike\,” is about queer love among  Beiruti adolescents\, and Salar Abdoh’s “The Long Walk of the Martyrs” invites us into the  world of former militants\, fighters who fought ISIS or Daesh in Iraq and Syria\, and are having  a hard time readjusting to civilian life. In “Eleazar\,” Karim Kattan tells an unexpected  Palestinian story in which the usual antagonists—Israeli occupation forces—are mostly  absent\, while another malevolent force seems to overtake an unsuspecting family. Omar  El Akkad’s “The Icarist” is a coming-of-age story about the underworld in which illegal immigrants are forced to live\, and what happens when one dares to break away.   \n \nJORDAN ELGRABLY is a Franco-American and Moroccan writer and translator\, whose  stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous     anthologies and reviews\,  including Apulée\, Salmagundi\, and The Paris Review. He is the editor of Stories from the  Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights 2024) and co-editor with Malu  Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories Press 2024). Elgrably founded  and edits The Markaz Review.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/u-s-book-tour-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-with-editor-jordan-elgrably-and-contributing-writers/
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SUMMARY:TMR 41 • FORGETTING Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin us online on Thursday\, May 16th at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET/ 6pm UK for our May roundtable discussion which invites four contributors to TMR 41\, FORGETTING\, to a conversation around the culture of memory and forgetting in the Arab world. \nAs Mai Al Nakib asserts in her essay\, “Writing is a memory archive\, [providing] a portal to lost time\, to fading traces of existence.” And this archive created and maintained by writers is often preserved against/in contradiction to/in defiance of/in resistance to and in spite of the approved narratives of the State. And so\, four writers from four different Arab countries\, each with its own traumatic and turbulent relationship to memory and forgetfulness—Nabil Salih\, from Iraq\, Mai Al Nakib\, from Kuwait\, Saleem Haddad\, from Palestine via Lebanon\, and Asmaa El Gamal\, from Egypt—sit down with senior editor Lina Mounzer\, from Lebanon\, to talk about those relationships and to discuss how personal memory might act upon the historical record. \nRead this month’s editorial by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably\, “Why FORGETTING?”. \nRSVP here \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nLina Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and translator. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and her work has appeared in the Paris Review\, Freeman’s\, Washington Post\, and The Baffler\, as well as in the anthologies Tales of Two Planets (Penguin 2020)\, and Best American Essays 2022 (Harper Collins 2022). She is a senior editor at The Markaz Review. \n  \nMai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait and spent the first six years of her life in London; Edinburgh; and St. Louis\, Missouri. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University. She was an Associate Professor of English and comparative literature at Kuwait University\, where she taught for twenty years; she recently left this position to write full-time. Her research focuses on cultural politics in the Middle East\, with a special emphasis on gender\, cosmopolitanism\, and postcolonial issues. Her short story collection\, The Hidden Light of Objects\, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. It won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award. Her debut novel\, An Unlasting Home—published by Mariner Books in the US and Saqi in the UK—came out in paperback in April 2023. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various publications\, including Ninth Letter; The First Line; After the Pause; World Literature Today; Rowayat; New Lines Magazine; and the BBC World Service. She divides her time between Kuwait and Greece. \nRead her centerpiece essay in this month’s issue\, “Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting.” \n  \nSaleem Haddad is a novelist\, screenwriter\, and essayist currently based in Lisbon\, with roots in Amman\, Beirut\, and London. His award-winning debut novel\, Guapa\, was published in 2016. \nRead his book review of “My Brother\, My Land: A Story from Palestine” in our May issue. \n  \nAsmaa Elgamal is a writer and scholar from Alexandria\, Egypt. She earned her PhD in International Development and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where her research explored the colonial and military histories of spatial planning in the Middle East and North Africa. Her writing has appeared in New Lines Magazine\, Contingent Magazine\, and Insider. She was also longlisted for the 2021 DISQUIET International Literary Prize for Non-Fiction. \nRead her essay\, “The Elephant in the Box” in this month’s issue. \n  \nNabil Salih is a writer and photographer from Baghdad who holds an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown and is pursuing a second MA in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. His writings appear in Jadaliyya\, Allegra Lab\, Al Jazeera English and LeftEast among others\, and have been translated to Italian\, Spanish\, French and other languages. \nRead his essay\, “Regarding the Photographs of Others—An Iraqi Journey Toward Remembering” in our latest issue. \n  \nRSVP here
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SUMMARY:Carte Blanche : Dialogue entre Alain Damasio et Karim Kattan
DESCRIPTION:Nous avons le plaisir de vous retrouver le 19 mai 2024 dans le cadre de la Comédie du Livre à 17h30 pour une carte blanche d’Alain Damasio avec le poète et romancier palestinien Karim Kattan. L’occasion de découvrir ou redécouvrir son premier roman paru aux Éditions Elyzad\, Le palais des deux collines. \nUne rencontre organisée par The Markaz Review en partenariat avec le salon de la Comédie du Livre de Montpellier. \nCet événement prendra place dans l’espace Albertine Sarrazin – Promenade du Peyrou. \nEn savoir plus de Karim Kattan :  \nKarim Kattan est un écrivain palestinien\, né à Jérusalem en 1989. Il est titulaire d’un doctorat en littérature comparée de Paris Nanterre et écrit en anglais et en français. En français\, ses livres comprennent un recueil de nouvelles\, Préliminaires pour un verger futur (2017)\, et un roman\, Le Palais des deux collines (2021)\, tous deux publiés par les Éditions Elyzad\, basées à Tunis. Le Palais des deux collines a reçu le Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie en 2021 et a été présélectionné pour de nombreux autres prix. En anglais\, son travail est paru notamment dans The Paris Review\, Strange Horizons\, The Maine Review\, +972 Magazine\, Translunar Travelers Lounge et The Funambulist . Kattan a été l’un des cofondateurs et directeurs d’el-Atlal\, une résidence d’art et d’écriture dans l’oasis de Jéricho (Palestine). \nParcourir ses contributions pour The Markaz Review:  \n\nComment Bethléem est passée de l’arrière-pays endormi de Jérusalem à une ville mondiale\n“Eleazar” – une nouvelle de Karim Kattan\nKarim Kattan : “Le fossoyeur”\n\n  \nEn savoir plus de Alain Damasio :  \nAlain Damasio est un écrivain de science-fiction français. Son domaine de prédilection est l’anticipation politique. Il marie ce genre à des éléments de science-fiction ou de fantasy et décrit des dystopies politiques.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/carte-blanche-dialogue-entre-alain-damasio-et-karim-kattan/
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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses “Where the Wind Calls Home” with the author Samar Yazbek
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin TMR’s Book Club on Wednesday\, May 29th at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET/ 6pm UK to discuss “Where the Wind Calls Home” with the author Samar Yazbek on Zoom. In this new novel by Syria’s most prominent writer of the National Book Award “Finalist Planet of Clay\,” a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived in the traditional Alawite way. \nIn this new novel by Syria’s most prominent writer of the National Book Award Finalist Planet of Clay\, a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived in the traditional Alawite way. \nAli\, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army\, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole–is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion\, wasn’t there … While trying to understand the extend of the damage\, Ali works his way closer to the tree. His ultimate desire is to fly up to one of its branches\, to safety. Through rich vignettes of Ali’s memories\, we uncover the hardships of his traditional Syrian Alawite village\, but also the richness and beauty of its cultural and religious heritage. Yazbek here explores the secrets of the Alawite faith and its relationship to nature and the elements in a tight poetic novel dense with life and hope and love. \nPublished by World Editions. Translated by Leri Price. \nRSVP here \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the author:  \nSamar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. She was born in Jableh\, Syria\, near Latakia\, in 1970\, and studied Arabic literature at Latakia university.\n\nYazbek has been a prominent voice in support of human rights and more specifically women’s rights in Syria. In 2012\, she launched Women Now for Development\, an NGO based in France that aims at empowering Syrian women economically and socially and at educating children.\n\nIn 2010\, Yazbek was selected as one of the 39 most promising authors under the age of 40\, by Beirut39\, a contest organized by the Hay Festival. In 2011\, she took part in the popular uprising against the Assad regime\, and was forced to exile a few months later. In 2012\, she was chosen for the prestigious PEN/Pinter Prize “International writer of courage”\, in recognition of her book “In the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution”. She was also awarded the Swedish Tucholsky Prize\, and the Dutch Oxfam/PEN Prize\, in the following year. In 2016 Yazbek’s literary narrative “The Crossing” was awarded the prestigious French “Best Foreign Book” prize. Her novel\, “The blue pen”\, was in the third and final selection of the French Femina award\, and was shortlisted to the National Book Award\, New York under the title “Planet of Clay” in 2021.\nIn 2019\, Samar Yazbek was attributed the honorary citizenship by the City of Palermo. And in 2022\, Yazbek was chosen by the Royal Society of Literature as one of its 12 International W1riters\, along with Anne Carson\, Maryse Condé\, Yoko Ogawa and Juan Gabriel Vasquez\, among others\, thereby joining the 12 inaugural awardees of 2021\, including Annie Ernaux\, David Grossman\, Amin Maalouf and Olga Tokarczuk. The RSL international Writers program is an award recognizing the contribution of writers across the globe\, celebrating the power of literature to transcend boundaries. New writers are invited to join the program each year.\n\nYazbek has published two collections of short stories\, seven novels\, four non-fiction literary narratives. Samar Yazbek lives in France. Her books have been translated in over twenty languages.\n\nAbout the translator:  \nLeri Price is an award-winning literary translator of contemporary Arabic fiction. She has twice been a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature\, in 2021 for her translations of Samar Yazbek’s Planet of Clay\, and in 2019 for Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard Work. Her translation of Khalifa’s Death is Hard Work also won the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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