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For over 850 years, two Palestinian Muslim families have been entrusted with the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest shrine for Christianity.…
Essays
Photo © by Yousef Khanfar In the age of globalization, Western social theories, particularly those articulating the concept of feminism, seem to have taken over the world. Today the women’s movement…
Laila Shawa, Handala / Courtesy of the artist Seventy years of Palestinian fragmentation since Israel’s creation have taken their toll. The Palestinians of today are split into different…
Sliman Mansour / Courtesy of the artist In memory, Aziz Shihab 1927–2007 In the late 1950s, in the middle of the United States (we lived in Ferguson, a quiet, leafy community barely known e…
Nabil Anani / Courtesy of the Artist It has been said, Wisdom descended into the hands of the Chinese, the brains of the Greeks, and the tongue of the Arabs. Palestinian writers, poets, and…
Marie Casimir and OU School of Dance MFA student J’aime Griffith are co-choreographing and performing in I Dream of Greenwood, with dramaturgy by Professor Leslie Kraus / Photo by…
Fan Yusu from the cover of the inaugural issue of New Workers’ Literature Fan Yusu is a migrant worker from central China. She went to Beijing to work as a live-in nanny (baomu) and late…
Practicing law in a Red Cross tent are B. C. Franklin (right) and his partner I. H. Spears with their secretary Effie Thompson on June 6, 1921, five days after the Tulsa Race Massacre / Courtesy of S…
A double exposure photo taken after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by personnel of the American Red Cross Several recent works on the Tulsa Race Massacre add to an already rich collection of public…
Photos courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Ella Mahler Collection / University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to see…
Alexander Tamahn, What Lies Beneath / Courtesy of the artist This year—2021—marks the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Will it take another hundred yea…
Since the economic reform launched in 1978, China has witnessed a vast group of rural women leaving their families behind in the countryside to enter urban middle-class homes as domestic workers.…
China’s “Battlers poetry” is written by members of the new precariat, especially rural-to-urban migrant workers. This is an exciting trend, both in its own right and when viewed as part of a mor…
The entrance to Picun / Photo by Maghiel van Crevel Fu Qiuyun, also known as Xiaofu, is a young migrant worker from Henan, China, and also the organizer of the literature group in Picun (aka the…
A meeting of the Picun Literature Group / Photo by Fu Qiuyun The Picun Literature Group has independently printed eight volumes of Picun literature since 2015 and released four volumes of the bim…
Banner of the New Workers’ slogan in Picun / Photo by Hui Faye Xiao A group of Chinese migrant workers, who call themselves New Workers, have been uttering their voices through the medium of lite…
Photo by Fallon Michael / Unsplash Using Bruce Charles Mollison’s How to Prepare for the Collapse of Capitalism as a starting point, Eric Schierloh partially rewrites and expands far bey…
Photo © David Ethan Ellis In the following tribute, WLT’s executive director offers his homage to Rudolfo Anaya, both a legend of the Chicano Renaissance and a personal friend. With…
Meytar Moran, The Crater, from the Black Magic series (2014–2015), MEYTARMORAN.COM Jewish literature, Israeli literature, Hebrew literature. From a distance they might seem like three circle…
Ismail Kadare's birthplace of Gjirokastër, Albania. Photo by Bruno Malfondet / Flickr. Neustadt Prize winner Ismail Kadare transports a reader to the Albania of her grandparents’ generation with…
The world English-language premiere of Ismail Kadare’s play Stormy Weather on Mount Olympus took place on October 21 during the 2020 Neustadt Lit Fest. Theater director…
Photo by Aldo Bonata Reading Kadare, David Bellos finds the whole world in literary form: a masterful blend of myth and folklore with portraits of modern minds and local realities—plus a cunning,…
Adam Jones from Kelowna / Wikimedia Commons As part of the ceremony honoring Kadare as the 2020 laureate—with participants logging in from dozens of countries around the world—Kadare’s nominating…
J. M. W. Turner, Ancient Italy—Ovid Banished from Rome, oil on canvas, 1838 / Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art During the Neustadt Prize ceremony on October 21, 2020, David B…
Bobby Sands mural on gable wall of Sinn Fein offices on Falls Road, Belfast./ Photo by Shermozle / Wikimedia What is it about the revolutionary that draws our fascinated attention? Whether one ca…
