For years people have been illegally sent back from #Italy to #Greece in secret prisons on private ships. After months of investigating, we’ve found where asylum seekers, including children, are being detained. THREAD 🧵

'Language reflects social reality, but it also has the power to shape it. If Safouan’s theory comes to fruition, if we lose our common Arabic, then the Western-driven project of nation-building in the region will have succeeded beyond its wildest dreams.' My piece in The New Arab

Iman Mersal's amazing في أثر عنايات الزيات is forthcoming at "Traces of Enayat," tr. Robin Moger, August 2023 And Other Stories. andotherstories.org/traces-of-enay…

يا له من خبر رائع.. بشائر العام الجديد تهلّ مع الإعلان عن قرب صدور الترجمة الإنكليزية لروايتي "رهائن الخطيئة". الشكر الجزيل للشاعر المبدع ناصر البدري مؤسس دار عرب، لمتابعته الدقيقة وحرصه على أدقّ التفاصيل.. والشكر للمترجم البروفسور في جامعة أدنبرة يونا فراس والمحررة مارسيا لينكس.

WHAT A LIST!!!! 🥰Heartiest of congratulations to my all-time fave, Najwa Binshatwan. #Libya Looking for a publisher. 👀👀👀 #xl8 ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social

An amazing list, and HUGE congratulations to Sawad Hussain Anam Zafar and Nadiya Abdullatif for their translations from Arabic!! Can't wait to see these out in the world with a PEN sticker 🤸‍♀️💕🥳

Along with 100 charities from the sector, we called on the UK Government to stop housing forcibly displaced children in hotels after the devastating news that 76 unaccompanied children went missing. We also called for an urgent independent inquiry into the situation. Thread 🧵

It's officially a thing, well at least virtually. Published on the 1st Feb apparently. Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Congratulations everyone Rumana Hashem #ucuRISING Thomas Shaw Vicki Squire Yasmine Shamma @suzanilcan et all

NW #Syria in a state of catastrophe after 7.8 magnitude #earthquake. Destruction, devastation, and collapse of buildings. Hundreds of injuries, dozens of deaths, many trapped under the rubble or stranded in the winter cold. We call on the international community to take action.

At this catastrophic hour, we call on all well-meaning people not to fall victim of the Syrian regime's propaganda. Sanctions against the Syrian regime are not the obstacle to aid delivery, but the closure of border crossings and the consequent slow delivery of aid.

Happy pub day M Lynx Qualey and Sawad Hussain! Loving this soundtrack ❤

In #Syria , wracked by 12 years of war, there are not enough rescue teams or medical equipment. Pic from the WND team, in the Jendires area of ​​Afrin, NW of Syria, after the earthquake destroyed most of its buildings, and there are not enough rescue teams to reach it. A 🧵

8/ You can donate to our partner service providers in this region via these links 👇 - Molham Team | فريق ملهم التطوعي: molhamteam.com/en/campaigns/4… - The White Helmets: whitehelmets.org/en/ - Basmeh & Zeitooneh: justgiving.com/page/turkey-ea… #earthquakes_know_no_borders #Syria #earthquake

Submissions are now open to the UK's only literary magazine written & edited by refugees and immigrants, the other side of hope || lit MAG. All published submissions are paid for. Share widely & help them platform more voices of refugee & immigrant writers👇 othersideofhope.com/submissions.ht…

Always a pleasure to hear Lina Fadel speak on any subject, but particularly on a topic like this. Don't miss this podcast - and please do donate to orgs helping the earthquake victims.

Popping back to say PLEASE do join us for this online event tomorrow to raise funds for earthquake relief. I'll be reading from khaled_khalifa's upcoming novel and listening avidly to the other readings. See you there 💙

صدرت اليوم روايتي " لم يصل عليهم أحد " بترجمتها الإنكليزية في نيويورك عن " Farrar, Straus and Giroux " في لندن عن " Faber & Faber " شكراً جزيلاً لصديقتي المترجمة ليري برايس