MaluHalasa

Jordanian-Filipina-American writer & editor of Woman Life Freedom: Voices & Art from Iranian Women's Protests, and literary editor, The Markaz Review.

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

I ran into Ashura celebrations in London today, in Piccadilly. Then I heard about this Ashura celebration in Karaj, Iran, with young women who marched with no headscarves. They were questioned by the police. https://t.co/F5taXfk4ha

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One week before @TheMarkazReview's double literary issue with short stories and creative nonfiction from Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Afghanistan, Iran, Algeria + memoir, diaries & graphic novels. Until then, go out: https://t.co/gnh7QqPOix

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Arid MENA, its natural resources and sun sucked up by the West, read Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy & Climate Justice in the Arab Region by Hamza Hamouchene @BenToumert & @KatieSandwell @PlutoPress, reviewed by Richard Lim @TheMarkazReview : https://t.co/YWifr5n0d6

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

@MiddleEastInst @shiva_khademi This looks like such a cool exhibition with women photographers from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Wish I was in DC. Shiva Khademi's series The Smarties an eye-opener for anyone who has an interest WLF and Iran.

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Writers, artists, translators, cartoonists, editors in Iran & elsewhere all thrilled that our Woman Life Freedom anthology has been included in the 2024 shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing @Lighthousebks, @SaqiBooks. https://t.co/EwRLKDdRYr

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Gaza, censorship, revolution, Syria, Arab Shakespeare on & off stage will be covered in tomorrow's @TheMarkazReview roundtable discussion on Middle Eastern theater at home & in the diaspora. Hosted by Iraqi playwright Hassan @abdulrazzak: https://t.co/LmIwgMquCZ

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@oliviasnaije Much that's being written and published today about Gaza is misdirection. Isabella Hamad is an important, critical voice that activists and people sitting on the fence cannot ignore.

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What it's like to be on stage hijab-less & breaking barriers in Tehran. In @TheMarkazReview theatre issue, #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini: https://t.co/fk9lYxY6UW

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

Our anthology, Woman Life Freedom: Voices & Art from the Women's Protests in Iran made the shortlist for the 2024 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Thanks to #WomanLifeFreedom, #MahsaAmini, @KhiabanTribune. Way to go @SaqiBooks: https://t.co/yopUh2IzVn

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

Forget about St. Louis, meet me in Venice.

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

@TheMarkazReview previews Mid East films in 2024 @hrwfilmfestival: Mediha @MedihaFilm; Inshallah a Boy @rulanasser @FilmJordan; and Revolution on Canvas re Nicky Nodjoumi's missing 1979 paintings in Revolution on Canvas: https://t.co/6SeTJGm2qq

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

@themarkazreview's Monday edition on Middle East film: Germany sacrifices truth and social realism to WWII guilt and accuses joint-Israeli & Palestinian production No Man's Land of antisemitism. Read Viola Shafik in https://t.co/0tEmervC6i #Berlinale #berlinale2024 #Palestine

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

Interested in how surveillance changed photography in Iran, subaltern perspectives in art, and edgy Persian visual arts? Join Sahar Saki, Vali Mahlouji @valimahlouji and myself tomorrow at SOAS for an illustrated lecture & discussion. @LinaKhatibUK @themarkazreview @SaqiBooks

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Join @SOAS_MEI & Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) next week on Feb 27 for a discussion titled “Iranian Women Visual Artists-NOW!” with panellists @HalasaMalu, @LinaKhatibUK, Sahar Saki & Vali Mahlouji. Register below: https://t.co/VusWbPhcLO

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Today's Monday edition of @markazreview also features a critical art piece by West Bank curator Nadine @aranki_n on the resurgence of the Palestinian posters. https://t.co/NAQuoTWpPw
#StrikeForPalestine #Art #Palestine #Gallery #Zawyeh

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

5th installment of Hossam Madhoun's Messages from Gaza NOW. Moving, frightening, can't turn away from, the theater-maker tells it like it is from this brutal war. People are starving; the death toll rising. Is anyone out there listening or cares? https://t.co/1xEv9S0Z2B

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On #WomanLifeFreedom, protest art, graffiti @KhiabanTribuine & surveillance in Iran, the art of anthologizing and labels, with the ever inquiring @dalchodha for @tenderBOOKS Chat https://t.co/LT0dBx23sg

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@CityLightsBooks Zoom event for #WomanLifeFreedom anthology @SaqiBooks tonight at 6pm PST, 9pm EST, 2am GMT and 3am CET. With special guest A Nearby Country Called Love novelist @AbdohSalar and @TheMarkazReview's editor Jordan Elgrably. Register: https://t.co/cVgEISdise

[MaluHalasa @HalasaMalu]

Hear women's voices from Iran like you've never heard them before. Woman Life Freedom anthology @SaqiBooks #womenlifefreedom finally available in the US. Zoom into the book launch @CityLightsBooks in San Francisco tomorrow night. https://t.co/urWzVb2slL

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@TheMarkazReview's Mischa Geracoulis @MGeracoulis reviews Dongola Limited Editions @dongolabooks: Notes on Formation, about Jordanian architect Ammar Khammash, https://t.co/4PWue8i56V

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Earthquakes too, not just war, devastate cities. Short story by @SalahBadis2 recalls the 2003 quake along the coast east of Algiers and the ghostly detritus of lost, forgotten lives, in @TheMarkazReview's architect issue: https://t.co/2Kba5JGd6D