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  • Pamphlet #16 The Difficulties

    Pamphlet #16 The Difficulties

    The Difficulties
    If there is a centre around which the language of this pamphlet circulates, then it is Palestine. As this centre, Palestine enables a transformative power that persistently and steadfastly turns repression and silencing into solidarity. Essay-fiction, prose poetry, radical philosophy, speculative nonfiction — this uncategorizable collection of texts brings militant inquiry to each utterance, each narrative turn, in acts of transnational and transhistorical becoming. FREE PDF

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    Haytham el-Wardany is a writer and translator, living and working in Berlin. He spent the last year listening to talking animals, in fables and elsewhere, and learned from them how to speak in moments of danger. His latest book, Jackals and The Missing Letters (Al-Karma 2023), considers forgotten expressions of hope within Arabic fables, where animals speak and humans listen, in a moment of post “Arab Spring” speechlessness. In previous publications, including The Book of Sleep and How to Disappear, el-Wardany has examined the potential of passivity, through regimes of listening and the dialectics of sleep and vigilance. He is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism 2022/2023.

    Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. Her critically acclaimed translation of Ahmed Naji’s prison memoir Rotten Evidence was awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her work appears in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, The New York Review of Books Online, Mousse, Frieze, and elsewhere, and has been anthologised in The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology, Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations, and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story. She is one third of teneleven, an agency for contemporary Arabic literature.