Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other La…
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This poem came to me, passed cell phone to cell phone by journalists, with the request that I help it be…
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a translator of Polish into English and the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish…
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the …
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