Only Jadaliyya can put together an Egyptian novelist, an Iraqi musician and a tyrant in the same space. Our eleventh installment features two interviews and a famous poem from the late 1980`s being read again nowadays in Syria and other Arab countries. We also have a series of images from Yemen:

On Writing and Revolution: An Interview with Mohamed Salah Al-Azab by Chris Stone

Nizar Qabbani`s "The Journal of An Arab Executioner" by Gaelle Raphael

On Resonance/Dissonance: An Interview with Khyam Allami by Sinan Antoon

Postcards from the Yemen Uprising by Mohamed Saleh Al Haj

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