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Nyla Matuk

@nylam.bsky.social

www.nylamatuk.ca The valley’s thirty thousand olive trees stood like dignified victors on the land, each as self-possessed as a single rose.

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Nyla Matuk@nylam.bsky.social · 2d ago

"[W]ould appeal to people who enjoy a gentle slow-burn narrative and who are engaged by complex ideas and film references" ... a short review of 'Leila and Khaled' from the Québec Library Association: abqla.qc.ca/en/review/le...

Review: Leila & Khaled — ABQLA

Leila & Khaled is a slow-paced novel set in Palestine from the perspective of a Palestinian-Canadian film scholar. Leila, touring Palestine as part of an academic delegation, meets Khaled, the to...

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Nyla Matuk@nylam.bsky.social · 4w ago

Brilliant resistance poet and activist -- well worth reading this short biography of Sulafa Hijjawi. #nationofpoets

Institute for Palestine Studies@palestinestudies.bsky.social · 4w ago

🧵Sulafa Hijjawi, Palestinian poet, scholar, and militant activist, passed away five years ago today. Born in Nablus in 1934, she became known for her literary translations of Palestinian resistance poetry, bringing Palestinian voices to English-speaking audiences: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · last mo.

Literally no one cares about the precious fears of a trillion dollar company regretfully moving in lockstep with its openly fascist peers.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last mo.

“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...

Nyla Matuk@nylam.bsky.social · last mo.

Re-upping this brilliant 2023 essay by writer, poet and artist by Fargo Tbakhi: "All the qualities of Craft, the qualities which make a “good” poem, pressured this violence—the violence of the liberal American unwilling to put their body and their peace of mind on the line, a violence which 1/2

Nyla Matuk@nylam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I loved, loved this interview of novelist Patrick Cottrell conducted by Sarah Nicole Prickett. Mostly because I could relate so much to what they both said; think they themselves are. Brilliant conversation! thetorontoreview.ca/patrick-cott...

Sarah Nicole Prickett and Patrick Cottrell in conversation | Toronto Review

Sarah Nicole Prickett interviews Patrick Cottrell in a conversation about losing their brothers to suicide, the novel, Rachel Cusk, Henry James, and more.

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