Nyla Matuk

Poems by Dalia Taha — The Dial “Enter Sun”, “Enter Wrist Pain”, and “Enter Poem”

"The poem you don’t fully remember
But remember walking in Nablus after reading it
How the world seemed then
A mystery..."

Three poems by Dalia Taha
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Palestinian Literature and the “Recurring Nightmare” of Occupation — The Dial A conversation with Karim Kattan, whose short story “Burial at Sea” was published in our Fiction issue.

Karim Kattan interviewed in The Dial. www.thedial.world/articles/the...

@nylam.bsky.social reads an excerpt from her powerful essay “On Fragments and Silence” published in issue 177 of The New Quarterly. Read the rest of her essay: tnq.ca/story/on-fra...

#amreading #dispatches #readersky #booksky

Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)

Magritte:

Landscape experiments

Landed in Brussels Monday for two months at Passa Porta. Paints and pencils with a side order of poetry.

Orpheus in Paris: Sonia Delaunay’s Abstract Harmonies and the Birth of Orphism Sonia Delaunay remains a seminal figure in abstract art and modernist design.

As a co-founder of Orphism, a movement that fused Cubism’s structural rigor with a vibrant, chromatic dynamism, Sonia Delaunay reshaped the dialogue between art, technology, and everyday life.
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Representations of the Intellectual | Fitzcarraldo Editions Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers add...

A new edition of Saïd's work is always welcome.
‘Edward Said defines a corrective way to think about politics, drawing an urgent and absolutely necessary line between individual responsibility and authority of consensus.’
-Joan Didion
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...

Representations of the Intellectual | Fitzcarraldo Editions Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers add...

A new edition of Saïd's work is always welcome.
‘Edward Said defines a corrective way to think about politics, drawing an urgent and absolutely necessary line between individual responsibility and authority of consensus.’
-Joan Didion
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...

Looking forward to a Jan. and Feb. 2026 residency in Brussels for my next project. Many thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec exchange program with Passa Porta House of International Literature, Brussels.
www.passaporta.be/en/in-reside...

The second installment of our collaboration with Radio al-Hara will air today at 12pm Palestine time. Tune in to listen to Episode 2 of the PalFest Podcast, with the editors of the major new anthology, HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: PALESTINIAN POETRY.

Listen here: www.radioalhara.net/

This is great!

Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?

Naomi Klein: we are starting to define elements of fascism, but what does anti-fascism look like? www.equator.org/articles/sur...

I’m already supporting my friend and his family.

Partition

Prof. of History Diana Allan's 'Partition' at the Montreal International Documentary Festival:
"From 1917 to 1948, Palestine was under British occupation. During this time, numerous films were shot with the intent to document the Empire’s colonial operations."
ridm.ca/en/films/par...

Saeed Teebi on Why He’s Still Boycotting the Giller: ‘Literature Does Not Come Before Humans’ The Palestinian-Canadian author is one among hundreds of Canadian writers boycotting the literary prize over its ties to funders they deem complicit in Israel’s genocide. Teebi shared his reasons in a...

Saeed Teebi: "Literature does not come before humans."
A powerful testament to writing and thinking while being Palestinian. #identity #freepalestine
www.thegrindmag.ca/literature-d...

Front cover of the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.

Table of contents from the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.

A spread from the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.

A quote from Daniel Gorman, Director, English PEN: 'Allows us a glimpse at the devastating impact on the cultural landscape of Gaza during Israel's genocidal war, and the crucial need to do all we can to support and champion Palestinian voices.'

We are honoured to share Archiving Gaza in the Present, edited by Dina Matar & Venetia Porter. The book reveals how conflict erases lives and memory, even as archiving, art-making and testimony endure.

Learn more or order your own copy on our website.

Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) spoke to over two dozen current and former journalists at the BBC, from frontline reporters to senior editors, who believe that the ”corporation mishandled its response to the Gaza war.” Read his in-depth report:

www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Honoured (Canadian spelling!) to have been invited to inaugurate the Shakir-Ellenbogen Lecture Series at the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn. I'll be talking and reading from my new MS of poems and my novel MS.

We are deeply concerned by a State’s use of the word “witch” to attack a UN expert in her report to the #UNGA80 3rd Committee. Misogynistic gendered insults have no place in international dialogue and undermine women’s equality and the integrity and independence of UN mandates.

Finistère, July 2024.

I’ll be reading my newest poems at Watermelon Seeds 2 Festival, a hybrid event broadcast from Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC, Oct. 11. Please join us tomorrow! My reading takes place at 1:25 pm Pacific (4:25 pm Eastern)

Save the night trains.

Looking forward to starting Saeed Teebi’s ‘You Will Not Kill Our Imagination.’

Next project for me: artist’s book to be produced this winter during my residency in Brussels. Inspired by Etel Adnan’s leporellos.

I’m already supporting a family since 2022.

Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Some re-reads are more satisfying than others, yes?