I'm excited to contribute to "A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus," a class convened by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures & the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus A great line up of sessions & teachers! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-grand-to...

Anna Learn, Burning Tongues: Reading female Afghan poets in English translation medium.com/global-liter...

Anna Learn, Burning Tongues: Reading female Afghan poets in English translation medium.com/global-liter...

We're proud to publish Anna Learn's excellent and in-depth review of a new anthology of Afghan women poems: Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets, published by @twolinespress.com

“The streets are growing empty of human trappings, life’s color. One after another, we pull back. . . .” From “I Am My Own ID,” by Mariam Meetra (trans. Sabrina Nouri & Samantha Cosentino) worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/i...

📢Translation Attached is delighted to announce the publication of Captives: A Play and the Collected Poems by Sabahattin Ali. The book brings together Ali’s only known play with a wide selection of his poetry. Available worldwide on Amazon: amzn.to/4d22V7a #sabahattinali

Literature is for Europeans. History is for Everyone Else. Comparative Literature has a geography problem medium.com/global-liter...

We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures. Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!

My talk on translating Palestine at The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, where Palestine 🇵🇸 solidarity is alive and well. Great questions from an engaged audience! One of the few places in the US where a conversation like this is a possible in an institutional setting youtu.be/Gs1Gk0s51ys

Gaza—the stadium of the soul by Bassim Helmi Hijazi (twenty years old) In "From Dust We Rise: New Poetry from Palestine", a collection of Palestinian poetry from @rrgould.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...

Writing to Stay Alive Inside Egypt’s Prisons Prison writings from Post-Revolutionary Egypt a review of Imprisoning a Revolution (2025) by Collective Antigone, published by @ucpress.bsky.social medium.com/global-liter...

The Road to Khan Younis by Samah Zaqout @samahzaq.bsky.social medium.com/global-liter...

When Arab-American Fiction First Wrote Love Across Cultures: Amin Rihani’s Juhan in Arabic and Russian Translation medium.com/global-liter...

Bearing Light: A Poem From Gaza post by @451book.bsky.social medium.com/global-liter...

From Beirut to Gaza, revolution to memory, The Markaz Review has spent the last 5 years publishing SWANA writers and artists. We believe that freedom of expression is a fundamental right. 📖 Get your copy now: bit.ly/the-best-of-... #TheMarkazReview #TMR5Years #PrintEdition #NewBook

An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in the stories of Palestinian writer Nejmeh Khalil Habib @interlinkbooks.bsky.social rgould.substack.com/p/an-intimat...

3 Dec. 2025 4pm GMT New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship. Online @ics.bsky.social ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @palaeofuturist.bsky.social

“This, Ngũgĩ’s posthumous publication, serves as a persistent exploration of his uncompromising perspectives on language and its significance in society.” – Dike Okoro worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...

Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue. It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚

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