SOURCE: THE NEW YORKER BY KATE SHANNON JENKINS “I remember as young as four or five, I thought that if I could speak in standard Arabic I would be physically able to fly,” Al-Barghouti says. Over the past twenty years, thousands of people have attended performances by the Palestinian-Egyptian poet Tamim Al-Barghouti. In conversation, he speaks … Continued
By Sarah Ahmed Shawky Stepfeed.com The Nobel Prize is a set of international awards granted annually. First awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, it later added an associated prize for Economics in 1969. Middle Eastern Nobel Laureates received Nobel Prizes in three of six award categories: Peace, Chemistry and Literature. 1. Peter Medawar – The … Continued
BY: Julia Jahanpour/Contributing Writer Libyan-American author, Hisham Matar, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography this year for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, his personal memoir. The Pulitzer committee awarded America’s strongest writers in the fields of journalism, literature, and creative writing for its 101st year. Matar’s book chronicles his journey to discover what … Continued
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