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Heart of the Storm: A Sample of Jordanian Writing in English

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By Addie Leak, Areej Gamal, Marcia Lynx Qualey Verified, Jordanian authors
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When I first moved to Amman in 2016, I remember asking a new friend—a filmmaker—about the literary scene in Jordan. To my disappointment, he told me the future was in pictures, not books. No one read anymore; they were too impatient even to sit through full movies. He didn’t have many connections in the literary community because he wasn’t convinced there was much of one. Happily—though he might’ve been right about our shrinking attention spans—he was wrong about that.
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A Song of Praise for Marcia Lynx Qualey

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By Yasmine Seale, Rania Mamoun, Marcia Lynx Qualey Verified, Olivia Snaije Verified
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It’s a rare pleasure to be celebrating Marcia Lynx Qualey, to present her with the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, and to have the opportunity to say a few words about Marcia and the vital work she does. For as long as there’s been literature in Arabic, there have been poems of praise, known as madh, and on being asked to make these remarks today I was half-tempted to compose an ode to Marcia in that vein.
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"The Landscape around Us": Marcia Lynx Qualey's Ottaway Award Acceptance Speech

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By Marcia Lynx Qualey Verified, Yasmine Seale, Sonia Nimr, Nina Perrotta
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Thank you to Yasmine, who is a superstar in the firmament of Arabic-English literary translation and whose talent and finesse will continue to bring new communities of readers to Arabic literature in translation. And thank you of course to everyone at Words Without Borders, which is one of those few broad-based literary institutions in the US that has remained light in spirit, not fixed in place, but listening to its authors, its translators, its educators, and its readers.
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