Global Literary Theory
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Global Literary Theory on @medium.com brings world literatures into comparison. Currently running the Palestine Writers Workshop. EIC @rrgould.bsky.social. We began life as an ERC Grant and now celebrate poetics. https://medium.com/global-literary-theory
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From Beirut to Gaza, revolution to memory, The Markaz Review has spent the last 5 years publishing SWANA writers and artists. We believe that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
From Beirut to Gaza, revolution to memory, The Markaz Review has spent the last 5 years publishing SWANA writers and artists. We believe that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.
📖 Get your copy now: bit.ly/the-best-of-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR5Years #PrintEdition #NewBook
📖 Get your copy now: bit.ly/the-best-of-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR5Years #PrintEdition #NewBook
An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in the stories of Palestinian writer Nejmeh Khalil Habib @interlinkbooks.bsky.social rgould.substack.com/p/an-intimat...
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
An Intimate History of Violence: Beirut Under Siege in the stories of Palestinian writer Nejmeh Khalil Habib @interlinkbooks.bsky.social rgould.substack.com/p/an-intimat...
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3 Dec. 2025 4pm GMT New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship. Online @ics.bsky.social ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @palaeofuturist.bsky.social
New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
3 Dec. 2025 4pm GMT New Voices & Perspectives in Epigraphy: A Workshop on Editing Unpublished Inscriptions and Widening Participation in Scholarship. Online @ics.bsky.social ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @palaeofuturist.bsky.social
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“This, Ngũgĩ’s posthumous publication, serves as a persistent exploration of his uncompromising perspectives on language and its significance in society.” – Dike Okoro
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“This, Ngũgĩ’s posthumous publication, serves as a persistent exploration of his uncompromising perspectives on language and its significance in society.” – Dike Okoro
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
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Thanks to
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thanks to
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
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a year ago, a group of us got together to envision what a pple focus Sudanese
paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation:
www.freesudangazette.com
paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation:
www.freesudangazette.com
Free Sudan Gazette
Free Sudan Gazette is an independent, open-source digital media platform providing news, research, investigations, and documentation of political, social, and cultural events about Sudanese people …
www.freesudangazette.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
a year ago, a group of us got together to envision what a pple focus Sudanese
paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation:
www.freesudangazette.com
paper would look like. today that vision is released into the world. introducing The Free Sudan Gazette- an independent, open-source platform documenting Sudan’s struggle for liberation:
www.freesudangazette.com
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
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Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips
Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
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October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
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Read this extraordinary review of Abdellah Taia's oeuvre by Anna Learn medium.com/global-liter...
A Moroccan Novel That Disrupts Gender Norms
A review of Abdellah Taïa’s Living in Your Light
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October 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Read this extraordinary review of Abdellah Taia's oeuvre by Anna Learn medium.com/global-liter...
Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould on Iranian writer & lexicographer Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
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How a Lexicographer Changed Iranian Politics
Introducing a collection of revolutionary satire from Iran
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October 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould on Iranian writer & lexicographer Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
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Why I Choose to Live on a Floating Island of Garbage
Puerto Rico is a model for mainland democracy
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October 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here:
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September 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here:
events.zoom.us/ev/Av7REBItl...
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PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE features Lujayn, a fifteen-year-old writer in Gaza whom we have published extensively in Global Literary Theory. It will be her debut in book form. Her earlier stories are featured here:
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August 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE features Lujayn, a fifteen-year-old writer in Gaza whom we have published extensively in Global Literary Theory. It will be her debut in book form. Her earlier stories are featured here:
rrgould.medium.com/list/the-lig...
rrgould.medium.com/list/the-lig...
Alaa Albana, one of our participants, has shared a short poem honoring the martyred Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif medium.com/global-liter...
Tribute to Anas Al-Sharif
Honouring the martyred voice of Gaza, who fearlessly exposed injustice and carried the truth to the world.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Alaa Albana, one of our participants, has shared a short poem honoring the martyred Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif medium.com/global-liter...
Honored to have poet Alice Oswald among our mentors!
Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.
August 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Honored to have poet Alice Oswald among our mentors!
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Honored to publish Gaza-based teacher and translator Munira el Najar's @muniraelnajar.bsky.social 's reflections on being a mother in a time on genocide. Please read her work and support and share her campaign (her family depends on it): www.gofundme.com/f/renewing-h...
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May My Children Never Sleep Hungry
Testimonies from a Mother in Gaza
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August 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Honored to publish Gaza-based teacher and translator Munira el Najar's @muniraelnajar.bsky.social 's reflections on being a mother in a time on genocide. Please read her work and support and share her campaign (her family depends on it): www.gofundme.com/f/renewing-h...
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Thank you @soaspress.bsky.social for featuring our latest mentor report! Read it here:
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July 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Thank you @soaspress.bsky.social for featuring our latest mentor report! Read it here:
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Check out this list of writings from Palestine! Featuring our first mentor report by mentor Rim Aoude and writings by Alaa Albana and Islam Kamal, both writing from Gaza.
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List: Palestine Writers Workshop | Curated by Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD | Medium
Palestine Writers Workshop · The Palestine Writers Workshop is a collaboration between The Hands Up Project, which has been supporting young Palestinian writers for many years, and SOAS. Follow us on ...
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July 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Check out this list of writings from Palestine! Featuring our first mentor report by mentor Rim Aoude and writings by Alaa Albana and Islam Kamal, both writing from Gaza.
rrgould.medium.com/list/palesti...
rrgould.medium.com/list/palesti...
News from our partners at The Hands up Project!
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.
June 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
News from our partners at The Hands up Project!
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.
We’re thrilled to announce the Palestine Writers’ Workshop: A Mentorship Exchange Programme, in partnership with @soasuni.bsky.social and the Global Literary Theory project @balaghas.bsky.social.
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Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (including PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world).
⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
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⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (including PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world).
⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
buff.ly/oAGs0E3
⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025
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Our co-edited @britishacademy.bsky.social volume, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, is now available online. Order for your libraries or get in touch if you’d like to write a review!
https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334
https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334
June 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our co-edited @britishacademy.bsky.social volume, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, is now available online. Order for your libraries or get in touch if you’d like to write a review!
https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334
https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/60334
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One of my favorite Sabahattin Ali stories, “The Canal,” is now on GLT ==> medium.com/global-liter...
#SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature
#SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature
How Zağar Mehmet Went to Prison
A translation of Sabahattin Ali’s classic short story “The Canal”
https://medium.com/global-literary-theory/how-zağar-mehmet-went-to-prison-cd8720cfcb95
June 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One of my favorite Sabahattin Ali stories, “The Canal,” is now on GLT ==> medium.com/global-liter...
#SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature
#SabahattinAli #literarytranslation #turkishliterature
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Back pain? Arrow wound?
Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet
#documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading
Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet
#documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading
May 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Back pain? Arrow wound?
Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet
#documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading
Read about medieval amulets in our Document of the Month by Sarah Kiyanrad of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Check it out: bit.ly/versatileamulet
#documents deciphered by the IE team from the @khalilicollections.org
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #skystorian #weekendreading
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Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together
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@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
www.takhayyulproject.com/publications
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
Publications — TAKHAYYUL تخیل
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May 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together
www.takhayyulproject.com/publications
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
www.takhayyulproject.com/publications
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
Please read our latest : an extraordinary personal narrative “Famine, Fear and the Fight for Bread” by Palestinian writer Samah Zaqout, based in Gaza https://medium.com/global-literary-theory/famine-fear-and-the-fight-for-bread-8603ae01e612?sk=7158f15d5a6f89a70ad2a0714d5eec8d
May 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Please read our latest : an extraordinary personal narrative “Famine, Fear and the Fight for Bread” by Palestinian writer Samah Zaqout, based in Gaza https://medium.com/global-literary-theory/famine-fear-and-the-fight-for-bread-8603ae01e612?sk=7158f15d5a6f89a70ad2a0714d5eec8d