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News and Events

Announcing the Oklahoma Premiere of the Iranian American Documentary Film The Dawn Is Too Far

November 06, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Poetry

Three Syrian Exile Poems

October 24, 2024 |Faraj Bayrakdar
A photograph of 2025 NSK Laureate Cherie Dimaline. Text reads: The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner 2025.
News and Events

Cherie Dimaline Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

October 22, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Roger Allen: Translating Arabic and the Art of Translation

October 17, 2024 |Jonas Elbousty
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Book Reviews

Breaking Bourgeois Taboos in Cairo: Ihsan Abdel Quddous’s A Nose and Three Eyes

October 15, 2024 |Gretchen McCullough
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News and Events

Ananda Devi to Headline 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

October 03, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
A photograph of Mohamed Choukri. Text reads: Free and Open to the Public. Portraits of the Marginalized in Mohamed Chourkri's Short Fiction. A Talk and Q&A with Dr. Jonas Elbousty (Yale University)
News and Events

The Short Stories of Moroccan Writer Mohamed Choukri: A Talk by Dr. Jonas Elbousty

September 27, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Fostering Nonviolent Communities with LiveFree OKC: A Conversation with Jabee Williams

September 26, 2024 |Karlos K. Hill
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Interviews

7 Questions for Iheoma Nwachukwu

September 25, 2024 |Michelle Johnson
A photograph of Giannina Braschi with the cover to her book Putinoika.
Interviews

Give me more Putinas, por favor: A Conversation with Giannina Braschi

September 24, 2024 |Sandra Guzmán
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Poetry

Three Poems from Transylvania

September 19, 2024 |Gizella Hervay
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Interviews

Being Black in America: In Conversation with James E. Cherry

September 17, 2024 |Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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The Once Over

On the 15th Anniversary Edition of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

September 12, 2024 |Philip Metres
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Book Reviews

Striding the Borderlands: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s Great Fear on the Mountain

September 10, 2024 |Alice-Catherine Carls
A photograph of Zeina Azzam and the cover to her book Some Things Never Leave You
Book Reviews

“Depth of Kinship”: Zeina Azzam’s Some Things Never Leave You

September 10, 2024 |Deema K. Shehabi
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Book Reviews

Into The Abyss with Fernando Vallejo

September 04, 2024 |Kaitlyn Denton