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SUMMARY:U.S. Book Tour: "Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader" with editors Malu Halasa\, Jordan Elgrably & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Mala Halasa & Jordan Elgrably on tour for their new anthology\, Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, from Seven Stories Press\, with special guests:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A powerful and inspiring testament to the human spirit\, to the resilience of the Palestinian people\, and to their indomitable struggle for liberation.”\n—Nathan Thrall\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama\n\n\n\n\nTour dates and locations:\n\n\n\nJan. 24\, 7 pm (Fri) Politics and Prose\, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW\, Washington\, D.C. 20008\nJan. 30\, 5:15 pm (Thurs) Harvard\, Harvard Divinity School\, 45 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138 RSVP Online\nJan 31\, 5:30 pm (Fri) University of Pennsylvania\, 3451 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19104 (special guest Ahmad Almallah) More info\nFeb. 5\, 5-7 pm (Wed) NYU\, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, 20 Cooper Square NYC 10003 (special guest Mosab Abu Toha & Lina Mounzer ) RSVP Online\n\n  \nDonations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the book:\n \nAn anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance\, with selections of memoir\, short stories\, essays\, book reviews\, personal narrative\, poetry\, and art. \nIncludes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists. \n\nThe Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is\, above all\, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives\, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. \nIn times of devastation\, poetry\, literature\, and art are the mediums through which oppressed peoples reveal cherished aspects of their existences and remain defiant in the fight for self-determination. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland\, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres\, so do the Palestinians\, and their struggles and triumphs. \nThe essays\, stories\, poetry\, art and personal narrative collected in Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians’ aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of culture’s power and importance during occupation and war. \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the editors: \nMALU HALASA\, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review\, is a London-based writer and editor. Her latest book as editor is Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (Saqi 2023). Her six previous co-edited anthologies include Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline\, with coedited with Zaher Omareen & Nawara Mahfoud; The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design\, with Rana Salam; and the short series: Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images\, with Rosanne Khalaf\, and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations\, with Maziar Bahari. She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library; a founding editor of Tank Magazine and Editor at Large for Portal 9. As a freelance journalist in London\, she has covered wide-ranging subjects\, from water as occupation in Israel/Palestine to Syrian comics during the present-day conflict. Her books\, exhibitions and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Malu Halasa’s debut novel\, Mother of All Pigs was reviewed by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.” \n  \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. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review\, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). 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). Based in Montpellier\, France and California.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/u-s-book-tour-sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-with-editors-jordan-elgrably-malu-halasa-and-special-guests/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Syria’s Cultural Renaissance — Boom or Bust?
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nThe creative outburst of the 2011 revolution broke through Syria’s “kingdom of silence” and revealed new art\, voices\, and writing never before seen or heard. As the country emerges from a 53-year-long dictatorship\, can culture heal old wounds? Will creative minds envision the building blocks needed for the new Syria? Some say\, the current challenges are insurmountable. Explore possibilities with BBC correspondent and film director Lina Sinjab\, filmmaker Yasmin Fedda\, and fiction writer Odai Al Zoubi. Moderated by Malu Halasa\, TMR’s Literary Editor and co-author of Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014). \nThis roundtable discussion will take place online on Wednesday\, February 12th at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET. \nThis online event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \nRSVP here \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nOdai Al Zoubi is a Syrian short-story writer\, essayist\, and translator. His short story collections include Nisf ibtisma [A Half Smile] (Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House\, 2022); Kitab alhikma wa alsathaja [The Book of Wisdom and Naïveté] (Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House\, 2019)\, Nawafeth [Windows] (Al Mutawassit Publications\, 2017)\, and Al-Samat [Silence] (Al Mutawassit Publications\, 2015). He is also the author of collected essays: Qindl om hashim almafqūd [Om Hashim’s Lost Lamp] (Syrian League for Citizenship\, 2016). Al Zoubi was awarded a 2023 creative and critical writings grant from AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) for Empty Heavens\, short stories about everyday Syrians in their countries of refuge. His short story “Ten-Armed Gods” was published in The Markaz Review: https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/ten-armed-gods-a-short-story-by-odai-al-zoubi/ \n  \nYasmin Fedda is a Palestinian cultural practitioner\, best known as a filmmaker. Her work is multi-award winning and has been widely screened and exhibited across the world at festivals\, on TV\, and in galleries. Ayouni (2020) is her most recent Syria-focused film about people forcibly disappeared\, focusing on Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio. Yasmin is Senior Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University\, London. Yasmin Fedda’s essay\, with Dan Gorman\, “Three Nights in Free Syria” was published in The Markaz Review: https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/three-nights-in-free-syria/ \n  \nLina Sinjab is an independent filmmaker and a BBC Middle East correspondent based in Beirut. She also contributes to several international media outlets and is a frequent contributor to Syria From Within\, a Chatham House policy initiative. Sinjab has covered the Syrian uprising extensively since it began in 2011. She produced and directed the film Madness in Aleppo (2019)\, about the siege of the city. In 2014 and 2016\, Sinjab covered the Syria peace talks in Geneva as the BBC’s world affairs reporter. She directed the film Suryyat (2013)\, on Syrian women during the uprising. In 2013\, Sinjab won the International Media Cutting Edge Award for her coverage of Syria. \n  \nMalu Halasa\, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review\, is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor. Her latest edited anthologies are Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader with Jordan Elgrably (Seven Stories Press\, 2025) and Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (Saqi Books\, 2023). Previous co-edited anthologies include: Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (Saqi Books\, 2014); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (Chronicle Books\, 2008); Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (Hatje Cantz\, 2005); and the short series: Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images\, with Rosanne Khalaf (Saqi Books\, 2004)\, and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations\, with Maziar Bahari\, (Garnet Press\, 2008). She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library\, in Amsterdam; Editor at Large for Portal 9\, in Beirut\, and a founding editor of Tank Magazine\, in London. She has written for The Guardian\, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement. Her debut novel\, Mother of All Pigs (Unnamed Press\, 2017)\, was described as: “a microcosmic portrait of … a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline” by the New York Times. Her writing\, edited anthologies\, and exhibitions chart a changing Middle East.
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare in Arabic: Translating Western Theatre Classics
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Review is proud to co-sponsor this event on “Shakespeare in Arabic” organized by Columbia Global Paris Center and the American University of Beirut on Monday\, February 17th at 7pm in Paris. \nThis event will explore Arabic adaptation of Western theatre classics from Shakespeare to Brecht\, culminating in a showcase of a bilingual Arabic-English adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. \nBritish theater producer Georgina Van Welie\, along with Lebanese theater makers Lucian Bourjeilly and Caroline Hatem\, will discuss their experiences of Arabic adaptations of Western classics and creating work both in the region and internationally. \nThe discussion will be followed by an extract from Georgina Van Welie’s Arabic/English adaptation in development of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida\, translated by Ghareeb Iskander\, with video by Syrian artist Bissane Al Charif. \nTo learn more and register: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/events/shakespeare-arabic
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/shakespeare-in-arabic/
LOCATION:Reid Hall: Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc\, 4 rue de Chevreuse\, Paris\, France
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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "Too Soon: a novel" with author Betty Shamieh
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin us on Sunday\, February 23rd at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET to discuss “Too Soon: a novel” with author Betty Shamieh. \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the book: \nThirty-five-year-old Arabella\, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up\, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother\, Naya\, and grandmother\, Zoya\, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz\, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz\, since her growing feelings for Yoav\, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer\, seem destined for disaster… \nWith biting hilarity\, “Too Soon” introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948\, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies\, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11\, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time\, the three women fight to live\, make art\, and love on their own terms. A funny\, sexy\, and heart-wrenching literary debut\, “Too Soon” illuminates our shared history and asks\, how can we set ourselves free? \nPublished by Simon & Schuster\, 2025. \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the author: \nBetty Shamieh is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio\, a sequel to Twelfth Night\, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root\, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama\, she lives with her family in San Francisco. \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nThis online event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome to support The Markaz Review. \nRSVP here
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/tmr-book-club-discusses-too-soon-a-novel-with-author-betty-shamieh/
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: "Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader" at P21 Gallery London
DESCRIPTION:Book here \nWith readings and illustrated presentations\, this book launch celebrates the UK publication of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, an anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance\, with selections of memoir\, short stories\, essays\, book reviews\, personal narrative\, poetry\, and art. The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is\, above all\, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives\, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. In times of devastation\, poetry\, literature\, and art are the mediums through which oppressed peoples reveal cherished aspects of their existences and remain defiant in the fight for self-determination. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland\, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres\, so do the Palestinians\, and their struggles and triumphs. \nThis anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history\, and highlights writing from 2021–2024. The collection of writing and art includes: Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun\, co-founder of Gaza’s Theatre for Everybody\, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza; Novelist Ahmed Masoud with “Application 39\,” a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics; Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with “The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue\,” an analysis of Israel’s divide and conquer policies of fragmentation; Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi’s book\, Imagining Palestine\, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance; Essayist Lina Mounzer with “Palestine and the Unspeakable\,” an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians; And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008). Sumūd also includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists. \nSumūd: a New Palestinian Reader is published by 7 Stories Press. Books will be available on sale at the event. \nThis event is hosted by P21 Gallery with support from Arts Canteen. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nMalu Halasa is co-editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and Literary Editor at The Markaz Review. \nJordan Elgrably is co-editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz Review. \nNadine Aranki is the art editor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and West Bank curator and writer. \nSaeed Taji Farouky is a contributor to Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader\, filmmaker\, journalist and educator/lecturer. \nBook here
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldsite/event/book-reading-sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-at-p21-gallery-london/
LOCATION:P21 Gallery\, 21-27 Chalton Street\, London\, NW1 1JD\, United Kingdom
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