Raef Zreik, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani met in cold, snowy Vienna for a dialogue with Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese writer, professor of literature, editor, and essayist. Read the complete dialogue here.
How can the absentees possibly write about a space and time from which they are removed? What happens to the first person narrator when they are stripped of their story that is then handed over to that illusive third person presence? Questions raised by Prof. Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani at this afterward that he wrote to Elias Khoury’s novel “Stella Maris”.
Odeh Bisharat, the translation editor of “The Bridges of Constantine”, responds to Benny Ziffer’s review of the novel.
ReOrient Journal’ interview with Professor Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani, chief editor of Maktoob, about the politics of translation.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, the book illuminated for me some of the images of death that my family members ,carried with them from the Nazi camps. Comments on the novel “Children of the Ghetto – My Name is Adam,” by Elias Khoury.