a year ago, a group of us got together to envision what a pple focus Sudanese paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation: www.freesudangazette.com

Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza medium.com/global-liter...

Read this extraordinary review of Abdellah Taia's oeuvre by Anna Learn medium.com/global-liter...

Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould on Iranian writer & lexicographer Ali Akbar Dehkhoda medium.com/global-liter...

In praise of Puerto Rico by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera medium.com/global-liter...

We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here: events.zoom.us/ev/Av7REBItl...

PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE features Lujayn, a fifteen-year-old writer in Gaza whom we have published extensively in Global Literary Theory. It will be her debut in book form. Her earlier stories are featured here: rrgould.medium.com/list/the-lig...

Alaa Albana, one of our participants, has shared a short poem honoring the martyred Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif medium.com/global-liter...

Honored to have poet Alice Oswald among our mentors!

Honored to publish Gaza-based teacher and translator Munira el Najar's @muniraelnajar.bsky.social 's reflections on being a mother in a time on genocide. Please read her work and support and share her campaign (her family depends on it): www.gofundme.com/f/renewing-h... medium.com/global-liter...

Thank you @soaspress.bsky.social for featuring our latest mentor report! Read it here: medium.com/global-liter...

Check out this list of writings from Palestine! Featuring our first mentor report by mentor Rim Aoude and writings by Alaa Albana and Islam Kamal, both writing from Gaza. rrgould.medium.com/list/palesti...

News from our partners at The Hands up Project! We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.

Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (including PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world). ⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025 buff.ly/oAGs0E3

Our co-edited @britishacademy.bsky.social volume, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, is now available online. Order for your libraries or get in touch if you’d like to write a review! https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334

One of my favorite Sabahattin Ali stories, “The Canal,” is now on GLT ==> medium.com/global-liter... #SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature

Back pain? Arrow wound? Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet #documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org #medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading

Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together www.takhayyulproject.com/publications @erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social

Please read our latest : an extraordinary personal narrative “Famine, Fear and the Fight for Bread” by Palestinian writer Samah Zaqout, based in Gaza https://medium.com/global-literary-theory/famine-fear-and-the-fight-for-bread-8603ae01e612?sk=7158f15d5a6f89a70ad2a0714d5eec8d

We have reached 1000 followers! Thanks to all our readers and contributors! Reach out via DM if you have something to share on world literature and poetics (reprints / republished work is welcome).

Aysel K. Basci @basciaysel.bsky.social introduces and translates an excerpt from Sabahattin Ali's "A Turkish Tale of a Drowned Man" medium.com/global-liter...

Our latest from activist translator Bokani Hart Who Has the Right to Translate? How human rights activism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo taught me to value translation medium.com/global-liter...

We just published Calvin Stevens's insightful critique of Doris Lessing’s writing about Africa: "Anti-colonial but not Anti-racist: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and the problem of the white gaze in African literature" medium.com/global-liter...

Important new study of Iranian poet Jahān-Malik Khātūn: Poetry, Life and Mediaeval Reception in the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation's collection on Women Poets poets.iranicaonline.org/article/5282...

"Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer: The Martyred Poet of Gaza" by Fehmina Hashemi medium.com/global-liter... #EduSky

Kayvan Tahmasebian’s review of Samuel Hodgkin's formidable book, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism (2024) @cambridgeup.bsky.social. This is the first review of the book. medium.com/global-liter... also published here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gestures of the Light, Shadow of Things: Kayvan Tahmasebian on Persian Poetry and Activist Translation www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01...

Our team member Kayvan Tahmasebian’s newest article is out in open access from Philological Encounters: "From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric" brill.com/view/journal...

Very excited to have signed a contract with @archumanities.bsky.social to write a book in their wonderful Past Imperfect series, titled The Afro-Eurasian Middle Ages. The cover will be the Fra Mauro world map (mappa mundi, c.1457), and here's a short 🧵 on the ideas... 1/ #MedievalSky #HistorianSky

We’re delighted to publish Mehtap Ozdemir’s (Emory University, Comparative Literature): "Islamic Mysticism and Modernist Aesthetics: On Asaf Halet Çelebi’s mystical poetics” medium.com/global-liter... on @medium.com

PEN International has launched an archive to commemorate the lives & work of the many writers so far killed in Gaza. It is a detailed honouring of each person. “I am Nour El Din Adnan Hajjaj, a Palestinian writer, I am 27 years old & I have many dreams...” www.pen-international.org/war-on-write...

What is World Literature? Global Literary Theory may have an answer Check out the latest from Global Literary Theory on @medium.com Including collections of stories on African, Arabic, English, Spanish, Persian, Turkish (and Turkic), and Urdu literatures. medium.com/global-liter...

Forthcoming in the next issue of Philological Encounters from our team member Kayvan Tahmasebian "From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric" From the abstract "This article explores the vernacularization of Arabic rhetorical embellishments by Persian rhetoricians"

Soon to be published by @britishacademy.bsky.social! The proceedings of our inaugural conference: Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory Read more globallit.hcommons.org/project-outp... Have your libraries pre-order uk.bookshop.org/p/books/arab...

Our latest contribution from Aysel K. Basci: a translation of Halide Edib Adıvar's response to questions about nationalism medium.com/global-liter... part of our growing list of contributions on Turkish and Turkic literature rrgould.medium.com/list/turkish...

Inaugurating our return to Blue Sky with a starter part of accounts relating to Comparative Poetics. Comment below if you'd like to be added/other accounts should be added. go.bsky.app/2C4hPKM

arablit.org/2023/12/04/o... #GlobalLIT #Gazapoetry #ArabLIT #Balagha #HebaAbuNada #HibaAbuNada proteanmag.com/2023/11/03/i... #GlobalLIT #Gazapoetry #Arabicliterature #Balagha #HebaAbuNada#HibaAbuNada

arablit.org/2023/12/04/o... #GlobalLIT #Gazapoetry #ArabLIT #Balagha #HebaAbuNada #HibaAbuNada proteanmag.com/2023/11/03/i... #GlobalLIT #Gazapoetry #Arabicliterature #Balagha #HebaAbuNada#HibaAbuNada

في هذا المقطع من حوار مع الشاعرة والروائية الفلسطينية هبة أبو ندى، تقرأ جزءا من قصيدتها “يا وحدنا”. تجسد القصيدة الواقع القاسي للحرب والوحدة. وقصيدة أخرى بعنوان “أعيذك” ألفتها في 10 تشرين الأول، ترجمتها هدى فخر الدين. استشهدت هبة في غارة جوية إسرائيلية على غزة في 20 أكتوبر

Palestinian poet Heba Abu Nada recites part of her poem ‘Our Loneliness,’ reflecting war's brutal reality and loneliness. ‘I Grant you Refuge,’ composed on October 10, was translated by Huda Fakhreddine. Heba tragically died in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 20, 2023.

سلسلة #GlobalLit عن #غزة_الشعر ستضم شعراء وأدباء مثل هبة أبو ندى ونور الدين حجاج ورفعت العرعير و  شحدة البهبهاني الذين استشهدوا في غزة، إلى جانب محمود جودة ومصعب أبو طه وآخرين. ستتناول السلسلة حياتهم وإسهاماتهم الأدبية، مع التركيز على تأثيرهم على #الشعر_الغزاوي #الأدب #البلاغة.

في ظل الحرب المستمرة على غزة، سيقدم لكم فريق #GlobalLit سلسلة عن #غزة_الشعر، تسلط الضوء على حياة وأعمال بعض أبرز الشخصيات الأدبية الفلسطينية المعاصرة من غزة. تتمثل رؤية #GlobalLit في إحياء قوة الشعر والمفاهيم الأدبية النظرية التي تعطيه الشكل وهي #البلاغة. globallit.hcommons.org/project-outl...

#GlobalLit #Gazapoetry #GazaLiterature #ArabicLiterature #Balagha

#GlobalLit #Gazapoetry #GazaLiterature #ArabicLiterature #Balagha