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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · 19d

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Aug 11

Honored to have poet Alice Oswald among our mentors!

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · Aug 9

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

A screenshot of an Instagram post noting the arrest of Alice Oswald for supporting Palestine Action.

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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you @soaspress.bsky.social for featuring our latest mentor report! Read it here:
medium.com/global-liter...

Funded by the SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund, the Palestinian Writers’ Workshop provides online workshops to young writers in Palestine in collaboration with The Hands Up Project. In a blog on Medium, volunteer Rim Aoude reflects on the experience.

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jun 27

This initiative is more than just writing — it’s about mentorship, solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling.

Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks from this inspiring collaboration!

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jun 27

12 gifted young Palestinian writers — from Gaza, the West Bank, and the displaced community in Egypt — are being mentored by leading poets and authors in the UK. Together, they’ll co-create a powerful new book that shares their stories, voices, and visions with the world. 🌍✍️🇵🇸

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jun 27

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 SOAS University of London and the Global Literary Theory project

12 gifted young Palestinian writers — from Gaza, the West Bank, and the displaced community in Egypt — are being mentored by leading poets and authors in the UK. Together, they’ll co-create a powerful new book that shares their stories, voices, and visions with the world. 🌍✍️🇵🇸

This initiative is more than just writing — it’s about mentorship, solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling.

Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks from this inspiring collaboration!

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · May 31

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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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

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Aysel K. Basci @basciaysel.bsky.social · Jun 2

One of my favorite Sabahattin Ali stories, “The Canal,” is now on GLT ==> medium.com/global-liter...
#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

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Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · May 13

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

Publications — TAKHAYYUL تخیل

www.takhayyulproject.com

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · May 10

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

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Apr 27

We have reached 1000 followers! Thanks to all our readers and contributors!

Reach out via DM if you have something to share on world literature and poetics (reprints / republished work is welcome).

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Apr 27

Aysel K. Basci @basciaysel.bsky.social
introduces and translates an excerpt from Sabahattin Ali's "A Turkish Tale of a Drowned Man"
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A Turkish Tale of a Drowned Man

Introducing Sabahattin Ali’s story “Hasan Drowned”

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Apr 27

Our latest from activist translator Bokani Hart
Who Has the Right to Translate?
How human rights activism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo taught me to value translation
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Who Has the Right to Translate?

How human rights activism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo taught me to value translation

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Apr 9

We just published Calvin Stevens's insightful critique of Doris Lessing’s writing about Africa:

"Anti-colonial but not Anti-racist: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and the problem of the white gaze in African literature"

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Anti-colonial but not Anti-racist

Doris Lessing’s “The Grass is Singing” and the problem of the white gaze in African literature

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Feb 28

Important new study of Iranian poet Jahān-Malik Khātūn: Poetry, Life and Mediaeval Reception in the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation's collection on Women Poets
poets.iranicaonline.org/article/5282...

Jahān-Malik Khātūn: Poetry, Life and Mediaeval Reception

Her Life in Shiraz Jahān was an Injuid princess, and daughter of the ruler of Shiraz, Masʿūd Shāh...

poets.iranicaonline.org

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Feb 19

"Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer: The Martyred Poet of Gaza" by Fehmina Hashemi
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#EduSky

Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer: The Martyred Poet of Gaza

“Palestine is always one story away, one stone away.”

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jan 11

Kayvan Tahmasebian’s review of Samuel Hodgkin's formidable book, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism (2024) @cambridgeup.bsky.social. This is the first review of the book.

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also published here:
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The Poetics of Eastern Internationalism

Reflections on the concept of the “Persianate”

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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · Jan 9

Gestures of the Light, Shadow of Things: Kayvan Tahmasebian on Persian Poetry and Activist Translation

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01...

Gestures of the Light, Shadow of Things: Kayvan Tahmasebian on Persian Poetry and Activist Translation - Asymptote Blog

Why should we accept the universal validity of the categories that the West creates for self-description?

www.asymptotejournal.com

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