R A Y A https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Sinan Antoon’s novel “Of Loss and Lavender”: Another powerful investigation of reinvention, memory and forgetting Sinan Antoon Discusses ‘Ave Maria’, Memory, and the Future of Iraq Ghazala and the Sheikh’s seven Syrian author Samar Yazbek chronicles Palestinian survival in ‘Your presence is a danger to your life’ – “What elevates the book from a mere catalog of horrors is the profound psychological resilience exhibited by the survivors. Literary critics reviewing the publication have noted a miraculous absence of blind hatred within the testimonies” Translating trauma, the trauma of translating: Leri Price on translating Yazbek’s ‘Your presence is a danger to your life’ – “it’s a moral act. I don’t feel capable of very much in the face of such overwhelming horror, but handling these stories with care and respect, being as truthful and as transparent as possible in conveying them to Anglophone readers, is something I can do” ArabLit reviews Yazbek’s “Your presence is a danger to your life” – “Horrific as it is, the need for a human to decide who should die when, where, and how—a human with all their complexities, hesitations, and conflicting moral values—can now be removed altogether from the murder equation. Palestinians have become merely undesirable data” ArabLit: Samar Yazbek on Redefining Collective Memory Buzz: “Yazbek’s ‘Your presence is a danger’ is not an easy book to read, but it is an essential one” The Mirror: “I want the voices of the survivors and victims to be heard: Samar Yazbek on Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life'” Publishers Weekly: “Yazbek’s ‘Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life’: The gates of hell are opened onto Gaza” Samar Yazbek ‘Your presence is a danger to your life’ is a searing read, very moving… Yazbek’s ‘Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life’ is a vital reminder of the ongoing genocide and the almost unimaginable extent of its human costs Samar Yazbek on “Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices From Gaza” Sinan Antoon’s novel “Of Loss and Lavender”: Two Lives Fractured by War and Memory, and Sami’s “poignant dreamscape” A sleepless giraffe in Damascus Sonia Nimr invited to participate in Boca do Céu International Storytelling Festival 2026! Discovering Khalil Alrez in Turkish Husam Hilali, winner of the Osama Al-Danasouri Prize: “I am not a writer of nightmares in my work.” “Al-Danasouri Prize” awarded to the Sudanese poet Husam Hilali. KHALIFA Khaled “This is above all a book about humanity“ – a review of Yazbek’s book in Germany “A work of translation in every sense, as it seeks to convey the incomparable experience of exile” – The New Yorker, on Antoon’s “Of loss and lavender” Larissa Bender on translating the personal accounts in Yazbek’s Gaza book: ‘Far more harrowing than anything I have translated before’ The wind’s abode No one prayed over their graves The Arabic Audiobook: Hopes and Challenges Strawberry-Spotted Handkerchief Samar Yazbek “I fight against lies, violence, and cruelty” Dead Fish Breathing Lemon Peels Gaza residents: Your presence is a danger to your life May vanishes Death is hard work Khalil El Rez’s novel “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” : An astonishing weaving of the novel’s fabric with the spindle of love “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: A Novel between Shakespeare and Khalil el-Rez, “distinct within the Arabic literary landscape” “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: “Unprecedented” writing, a “novel whose hallmark is singularity and transcendence” “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” by Khalil Al-Rez: “Masterfully structured plot” – Al modon ”Strawberry-spotted handkerchief” by Khalil Al-Rez: “Powerful and creative talent” “gift for storytelling” “Everything is red: Stories of an Ongoing Genocide” “Strawberry-spotted handkerchief”: A narrative in the spirit of Shakespeare Khalil El-Rez’s “Strawberry spotted handkerchief” is “Spellbinding” — Al Mayadeen Khalil Al-Rez to Almodon: “My works are not bound by their real-time settings” Tahir ANNOUR Of loss and lavender Deeper Down the Well NIMR Sonia Samar Yazbek’s Op Ed in Le Monde “The Syrian Alawites are subjected to a massive collective punishment” Le Monde “The most deeply moving aspect is the echo of comparable suffering from one testimony to another” – about Yazbek’s “Gaza residents: Your presence is a danger to your life” IBRAHIM Mayada Reflections on Samar Yazbek and Syrian literature: Memory, testimony, and survival – “reshaping the Arab literary field as a whole” Home Page