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City Opera’s VOX Introduces New Works April 30 and May 1

The 11th season of City Opera’s VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab will present 10 new works by up and coming American composers and librettists- offering experimental pieces and works based on everything from classic literature to vintage B-movie horror.

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City Opera’s VOX Introduces New Works April 30 and May 1

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Four days of literature with the Beirut 39

BEIRUT: “The reader touches, feels, hears, tastes and sees the Middle East and North Africa as it really is,” claims Hanan al-Shaykh in her preface to the Beirut39 anthology. “Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World” was published this month, in both English and in Arabic, as the Arab literature festival draws to a close. Celebrating Beirut’s

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Four days of literature with the Beirut 39

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Iraqi women seek to ensure their ‘voices are heard’ (USA Today)

Sunday’s election in Iraq was a model of democracy and inclusiveness for the Middle East, with female candidates all over.

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Iraqi women seek to ensure their ‘voices are heard’ (USA Today)

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Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslavian Dissident, Dies at 76 (New York Times)

Mr. Mihajlov was jailed for seven years by the government of Josip Broz Tito, and later taught at universities in the West.

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Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslavian Dissident, Dies at 76 (New York Times)

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Radical reading at the Israeli-Arab book club (Guardian Unlimited)

A groundbreaking new literary event offers new paths to understanding in what often seems an intractable conflict The Middle East generates huge amounts of news coverage, but as the New Yorker pointed out last month , only recently has literature documenting people’s daily lives in the region started winning western readers. In the case of the Israel-Palestine conflict, while some writers (Amos …

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Radical reading at the Israeli-Arab book club (Guardian Unlimited)

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Arabian nights and adventures in Gelman (The GW Hatchet)

Gelman Library’s staff recently finished cataloging the Middle East Institute Rare Book Collection, which features more than 700 volumes of literature from western, eastern and central Asia.

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Arabian nights and adventures in Gelman (The GW Hatchet)

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Gelman receives grant for digitization (The GW Hatchet)

The Gelman Library System was awarded a $400,000 grant to digitize its special collection of literature on the Middle East, a library administrator said last week.

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Gelman receives grant for digitization (The GW Hatchet)

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Welcome to Twitterature (Digital Trends)

As literature gets the Twitter treatment, is it a step too far?

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Welcome to Twitterature (Digital Trends)

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Persian radio in Holland gives Iranians news (San Francisco Chronicle)

Until the Iranian election this month, Holland’s Radio Zamaneh was more interested in underground music, alternative literature and interviews with Iranian cultural figures than in politics. Now it is one of the few Persian-language sources of unfiltered…

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Persian radio in Holland gives Iranians news (San Francisco Chronicle)