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Following decades of British colonial rule to the rapidly tightening grip of mainland China and all the stories told about that chunk of land along the way, Hong Kong has…
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December 17, 2019
September 6, 2019Photo: Sandra Barba & Edited by Hugo González In Mexico’s “glitter revolution,” women stand in solidarity, protesting escalating violence against women. “This march belongs to …
February 13, 2017The Free Minds book club and writing workshop at AWP empowered young inmates to “write new chapters in their lives.” Said Nokomis, “Free Minds encouraged me to be a better writer . . . to be a bigger…
March 23, 2016Alex Ringer, “Thistle-Garden (Cynara syriaca f. alba),” Jezreel Valley, Israel Introductory note by translator Rachel Tzvia Back Tuvia Ruebner was born in Slovak…
December 11, 2013Protesters in Kiev on December 9th. Photo by Ivan Bandura/Flickr Editorial note: In solidarity with the protesters in Ukraine, WLT offers the following selections…
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Photo by trentinness / Adobe StockHunger Strike
In the last watch
of blood and memories,
in the last neighing
of empty stomachs,
the human tree…
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday…
Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After obtaining his DPhil, he joined…
Five or six years ago, I was reading Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) with my Arabic teacher and thought of writing an article about him in English,…
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…
