November Culture Bouquet

Flowers in November? Yes! After a long, hot summer’s break Jadaliyya Culture returns with another bouquet, as bright as any we have given you before, but this time a bit heavier. Maybe as heavy as a pagan rock sitting on display in the national museum of a theocratic state. Highlights include:

— Hamdy El-Gazzar's "Love", translated by Nancy Linthicum. 

— Anne-Marie McManus introduces Mustafa Khalifa's prison novel, al-Qawqa`a.

— Mansoura Ez-Eldin's essay, "The Callous Father who Refuses to Die," translated by Emily Drumsta.

— Four poems by Mohamed Khair-Eddin, translated by Gaelle Raphael.

— An excerpt from Faraj Bayraqdar's prison memoir, translated by Ahmad Diab. 

— Maymanah Farhat writes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's reopening of their Islamic Art galleries. 

Stay tuned for more. On December 15, we will lay another fat wreath on your computer, with Iraqi photography, more Hamdy El-Gazzar and poetry by al-Zahawi and Talal Haydar.