“When I read a necessary poem (which is different from just a good poem), it shakes me, even changes me a little, and deepens my understanding of the world,” Zeina Hashem Beck, Lebanese poet, said in…
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Photo by KEA / Adobe StockWe met for the first time at a modern Chinese restaurant in the heart of Causeway Bay, the name of which is nowhere near as…
In her semi-autobiographical novel The Camp: A Little Girl from Karabakh (Shuddhashar, 2022), Gunel Movlud refers to her life as an…
The Christie Archive Trust, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWho is the world’s most translated author? Agatha Christie? Antoine de Saint-…
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Seoul, which I had last seen in…