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3 Dec. 2025 4pm GMT New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship.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

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

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