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Living in a void: life in Damascus after the exodus
My sister, whom I haven’t seen for more than two years, told me she was going to cross the sea…
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Khalid Khalifa: The writer is a realist and understands truth and human traits
Syrian novelist Khalid Khalifa: The writer is a realist and understands truth and human traitsBorn in Aleppo in 1964, award-winning…
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Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell
Aleppo has essentially fallen. The images have been unignorable, calamitous: of residents wandering numbly through burning city streets; of parents…
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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa review – rage and shame in Syria
Were Syrians wise to revolt? Aren’t they worse off now? Such questions misapprehend the situation. Syrians didn’t decide out of…
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A True Loss in Translation: The Edited English Version of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘In Praise of Hatred’
Khaled Khalifa, speaking at Duke University in February 2016, suggested he had not been notified of his publisher’s decision to…
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Writer in residence khaled khalifa
Khaled Khalifa talks about his time and his work during his residency in Brussels. Published on Passa Porta’s YouTube channel…
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In Praise of Hatred: a conversation with Khalid Khalifa
Syrian author Khalid Khalifa sits down with Renée Ragin to discuss his process, his novels, and his thought on Syria…
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Khalifa: lover of two cities, chronicler of a country
Khaled Khalifa (Photo courtesy of Syria Speaks) Even as his reputation grows beyond the borders of Syria, the writer’s works…
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Khaled Khalifa: “Revolutions Can’t Be Reversed”
Khaled Khalifa [Last month, the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa visited London to promote ‘Syria Speaks’, an anthology of short stories,…
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Syrian novelist pained by continued bloodshed
Khaled Khalifa during an interview with The Associated Press at a cafe in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. April 21, 2014 (AP…
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