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Ehkili | Books & Literature from the Arab WorldAuthor Selma Dabbagh | We Wrote In Symbols: Love and Lust By Arab Women WritersIn this episode of Ehkili, Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh discusses the influence of her legal background on her storytelling and explores the complexities of her Palestinian identity, particularly in the context of political engagement and activism. The conversation also delves into Dabbagh's novel "Out of It" and her anthology "We Wrote In Symbols: Love and Lust By Arab Women Writers," highlighting the themes of erasure, representation, and self-inquiry through literature. Dabbagh shares her perspectives on the current political climate in the UK, the growing public support for Palestinian rights, and the challenges faced by academics and activists. The episode...2025-05-0259 min
Middle East Centre BooktalkGenocide in GazaOn Tuesday 18 February 2025, the Middle East Centre hosted the launch for St Antony’s Emeritus Fellow, Professor Avi Shlaim’s, new book ‘Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine’ (Irish Pages Press, 2025). On Tuesday 18 February 2025, the Middle East Centre hosted the launch for St Antony’s Emeritus
Fellow, Professor Avi Shlaim’s, new book ‘Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine’ (Irish Pages Press,
2025). This is a recording of Avi Shlaim’s talk, chaired by MEC Director, Professor Eugene Rogan, and featuring
the Founder and Editor of Irish Pages, Chris Agee.
The book is a Times Literary Supplement bo...2025-03-0738 min
AKC PodcastS12 E02: Cunning Encounters: Love as Bravery and DefianceDr Selma Dabbagh explores Arab women's poetry2025-01-2140 min
Lecturas de tabaquería307 Se cumplen los 15 años del podcast Lecturas de tabaquería leyendo escritoras palestinas
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El 19 de agosto de 2009 publiqué la primera lectura de este podcast. Crearlo fue una forma de cumplir el sueño de ser un lector de tabaquería.
Ha pasado mucha agua bajo este puente. Mi técnica de lectura ha cambiado, igual que la técnica de grabación. He conocido, leyéndolos, escritoras y escritores. He aprendido mucho, también. Y he recibido comentarios de personas que encuentran útiles y disfrutan estas grabaciones. Eso me hace muy feliz y es una especie de recompensa por el trabajo (han notad...2024-08-1900 min
The LedeLove, Lust and Literature — with Selma Dabbagh and Lydia WilsonSelma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian writer and the editor of the 2021 anthology “We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers.” Through poetry and short stories, novel excerpts and letters, the collection pulls from more than 1,000 years of Arab women’s writing — from pre-Islamic poetry to contemporary fiction. “There seemed to be something so modern and pithy and frank and refreshing about their voices,” Dabbagh tells New Lines Magazine's Lydia Wilson in the first episode of the magazine’s new podcast, “The Lede.” “My interest was really in looking at how these voices had changed over time.” They talk about the di...2022-07-2935 min
UnsettledMahmoud Muna: Educational BookshopMahmoud Muna is part of the family that runs the Educational Bookshop: the only English language bookstore in East Jerusalem. The current iteration of the Bookshop was opened in the 1980s by Mahmoud’s father, Ahmed. Today, the shop has multiple locations and thousands of titles on its shelves. "Any book on Palestine-Israel that has ever [been] written," Mahmoud says, "there's a good chance we have it."When Unsettled producer Max Freedman visited Jerusalem at the start of 2020, he stopped by the Educational Bookshop and sat down with Mahmoud. In this episode of Unsettled, they talk about th...2022-02-0925 min
PeacemindedlyWe Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers: Selma DabbaghWe Wrote in Symbols isthe first anthology to feature writing by Arab women on lust, love and the erotic.spanning 3000 years, it includes the works of classical authors, award-winning contemporary authors and emerging writers, published in English for the first time.It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another – that many of the writers are women.We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heritage who articulate love and lust with artistry an...2021-10-2037 min
PeacemindedlyWe Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers: Selma DabbaghWe Wrote in Symbols is the first anthology to feature writing by Arab women on lust, love and the erotic. spanning 3000 years, it includes the works of classical authors, award-winning contemporary authors and emerging writers, published in English for the first time. It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another – that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heritage who articulate love and lust with artistry an...2021-10-2037 min
BULAQ | بولاقWomen In Love and In LustWe Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers brings together fiction and poetry by more than 70 women over a span of more than 1500 years. Editor Selma Dabbagh talks about why it's hard to write about sex, and the difficult balance of reaching readers.Show Notes: The digital launch of We Wrote in Symbols, published by Saqi Books, is scheduled for April 29, hosted by the Arab British Centre. Hanan al-Shaykh, Yasmine Seale, Saida Rouass, lisa luxx, and collection editor Selma Dabbagh will be there. There will also be a workshop launch with Marina W...2021-04-081h 08
WDR Hörspiel-SpeicherGeh’n Sie schlafen, Dr. Schott - Verbotene Liebe in Gaza 2048•SciFi• Gaza, 2048: In geheimem Regierungsauftrag überwacht die Psychologin Layla Wattan die Wissenschaftlerin Mona Kamal und den aus Israel exilierten Dr. Schott. Was Layla erfährt, lässt sie immer mehr an ihrem Auftrag zweifeln. // Von Selma Dabbagh / Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Maren Kames / Regie: Vivien Schütz / WDR 2018 // www.wdr.de/k/hoerspiel-newsletter Von Selma Dabbagh.2020-10-1532 min
Great Writers Inspire at HomeSelma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and communityWriters Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.2017-08-251h 21Great Writers Inspire at HomeSelma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and communityWriters Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.2017-08-251h 21
Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaJuly 21st: Gaza on the brinkGaza has been under siege for nearly 10 years now. In the year 2012, The United Nations declared the Gaza strip will not have the resources for human survival by the year 2020, but recently
Robert Piper, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories describe Gaza as currently “unliveable' land for its 1,8 million inhabitants.
To understand the Conditions in Gaza and the political context surrounding the deteriorating humanitarian situation, Vomena’s Mira Nabulis speaks with Jehad Abu Salim,a Palestinian from Gaza, and a doctoral student in history at New York University
Later in the program, we...2017-07-2159 min
KPFA - Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaVoices of the Middle East and North Africa:”Egypt: Three years later; witing on Palestine” – January 15, 2014Nearly three years after the fall of Mubarak, with the deep state and the military openly back in control, Egypt seems to have come full circle. How did that happen and what is the situation on the ground really like, as Egyptians go to the polls again to vote on a new proposed constitution? Vomena’s Khalil Bendib speaks with Egyptian activist, blogger and journalist, Hossam el-Hamalawy.
Selma Debbage says she wanted to write a contemporary novel about the Palestinian struggle that considered what it meant for individuals to have to, on a daily basis, constantly weigh up...2014-01-1508 minKPFA - Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaVoices of the Middle East and North Africa-“Turmoil in South Sudan and a conversation with British-Palestinian auhtor, Selma Dabbagh” – January 8, 2014Two and half years after its birth, the world’s youngest nation state South Sudan is engulfed in a crisis. Professor Khaled Medani speaks with Shahram Aghamir about the armed conflict in South Sudan and Malihe Razazan speaks with acclaimed novelist, Selma Dabbagh about her debut novel ” Out of It”
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