Middle East

  • Banned Books Week, Read Russia anthology, and more

    September 26, 2014 Kaitlin Hawkins
    This week, readers everywhere (us included) celebrated Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and authors whose books have been challenged, banned, and censored because of their conte…

  • WLT Executive Director RC Davis to appear on OETA this Sunday

    September 26, 2013 WLT
    Two University of Oklahoma faculty from the College of International Studies will appear on OETA (COX 14) discussing the current crisis in the Middle East on Sunday, September 29, at 1 p.m. Joshua La…

  • Follow the News

    August 28, 2013 Raha Namy
    In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…
  • Palestinians in the footsteps of Mahmoud Darwish and many other predecessors are turning to poetry and forms of new literacies to deal with the political turmoil of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Recent Palestinian Literary Activism

    By Sarah Smith
    June 5, 2013 Sarah Smith
    Poetry has a long history in the Middle East (as author Khaled Furani examines in one of the new books listed below), and Palestinians in the footsteps of Mahmoud Darwish and many other predecessors a…