News and Events
- Maurice Ebileeni interview in The New Arab
May 17, 2022
Maurice Ebileeni discusses his new book Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World in The New Arab.
- William Hutchins discusses a life in translation on the New Lines podcast
May 13, 2022
Award-winning translator William Hutchins discusses his long and storied career and his most recent translation of Hassouna Mosbahi’s Solitaire on the New Lines podcast.
- Riegel interviewed on WARC Radio’s The Other Side of Midnight
April 25, 2022
Stephen Riegel, author of Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York was interviewed for WABC Radio’s The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano on April 22, 2022. From their website: Frank Morano serves up another Morano Mystery with Stephen Riegel, practicing litigator, former Federal Prosecutor and the author. Listen ...
- Reem Bassiouney discusses Arabic Literature in Translation on the New Lines Podcast
April 25, 2022
When you read a translation, whose words are you reading? Reem Bassiouney and M Lynx Qualey join Faisal Al Yafai and Lydia Wilson on New Lines podcast to discuss Arabic literature in translation and why some translations alter the author’s original meaning.
- Biopic of Harry Haft premiers on HBO/HBO Max
April 25, 2022
The Survivor, a film based on the book Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, by Alan Scott is directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson and stars award-winning actor Ben Foster will premier on HBO/HBO Max on April 27, 2022. Watch the movie trailer
- Unaccompanied Traveler featured in the Irish Times
April 25, 2022
“Like all serious travellers, Murphy chased the purest experience, was contemptuous of mass-market tourism and yearned for an era when crossing the globe was more difficult.”—Tim Fanning, the Irish Times
- Boiling Point for Jam reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s blog Harriet Books
March 29, 2022
“The Boiling Point for Jam, by Irish writer Lynda Tavakoli, is a debut with the scope of a new and collected. Like a modern Angel of History, the speaker in these poems observes how ‘the past becomes the present / and the present loiters somewhere in the past,’ how even as we move, inexorably, into ...
- Zunes discusses Western Sahara
March 28, 2022
Author Steven Zunes discusses Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution, Second Edition, a comprehensive look at the Western Sahara conflict on local media. Learn to two recent interviews with Zunes: WBAI’s Leonard Lopate at Large Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
- Choice highly recommends Declaring Disaster
April 25, 2022
Declaring Disaster: Buffalo’s Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA was highly recommended. “ne of the finest political history accounts this reviewer has encountered.”—Choice
- Reem Bassiouney, author of Sons of the People interviewed on Majalla
March 21, 2022
Award-winning author Reem Bassiouney discusses the inspiration for her novels and her forthcoming book Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy on Majalla.
