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The Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship
Following weeks of uncertainty due to visa delays, St Aidan’s College of the University of Durham, Banipal magazine of modern…
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‘Recreating a beautiful thing’
“What’s important for a translator is to transmit this warmth and this love and this passion for what you’re writing…
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Politics and the Syrian novel: A mutual influence
What if events in Syria constituted a series of successive, ongoing epics of courage and, at the same time, constantly…
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Syria’s year of pain, through the eyes (and pen) of Khaled Khalifa
How is Syria’s year of pandemic, hunger and war reflected in the work of its artists and its writers? For…
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Χάλιντ Χαλίφα: «Κάθε μυθιστόρημα είναι μια μάχη με τη μνήμη»
Διανθισμένο με «πινελιές» «μαύρου» χιούμορ, το μυθιστόρημα του Χάλιντ Χαλίφα, ενός από τους επιφανέστερους σύγχρονους Άραβες συγγραφείς, Ο θάνατος είναι ζόρικη δουλειά είναι μια σπαρακτική μαρτυρία για την τραγωδία της Συρίας. Εν μέσω αυξανόμενων κρουσμάτων κορονοϊού και…
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A World Redrawn: Novelist says Syrians will remain unheard
Khaled Khalifa during an interview with AFP at his home in Damascus on June 2, 2020 (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP)…
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Verlassen Sie uns nicht!
In seinen Romanen geht Khaled Khalifa mit dem syrischen Regime hart ins Gericht. Trotzdem lebt der Schriftsteller noch immer in…
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Khaled Khalifa’s ‘Death is Hard Work’ a National Book Award Finalist
Khaled Khalifa and the cover of the novel “Death is Hard Work” – English Edition National Book Awards organizers today…
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Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa review – searing Syrian road trip
The poetic and horrific combine in this tale of love and death set in a Syria torn apart by civil…
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Death Is Hard Work: A Novel by Khaled Khalifa — the body politic
The Syrian novelist uses a funeral rite road-trip to explore the fear and paranoia of modern Damascus Khaled Khalifa and…
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