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Archive for tag: Islamophobia

08.022019September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Jess Rizkallah

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Jess Rizkallah

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags Abdel halim Hafez, age, Arab-America, Arabophone, Asmahan, Bettering American Poetry, biography, body, cross-culture, Fairuz, Franny Choi, gender, George Abraham, Hayan Charara, Interview, Islamophobia, Jess Rizkallah, Khalil Gibran, language, Manvir Singh, Marwa Helal, Noor Ibn Najam, poetry, Rami Karim, Randa Jarrar, Sandra Cisneros, Solmaz Sharif, surveillance state, visibility, xenophobia, Zaina Alsous

Has 2018 been different for you than other years? It has, but if it weren’t I think that would be concerning. For so long I...

24.082017September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags advice, Allison Titus, allyship, Bettering American Poetry, censorship, community, depression, Doctor Who, dogs, fascism, Game of Thrones, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Islamophobia, Kaveh Akbar, Lebanese Civil War, loss, poetry, Ruth Awad, Samantha Irby, social media, surveillance state, The Leftovers, Trump, Zeina Hashem Beck, Zeina Maasri

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

30.042017September 10, 2019

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags 9/11, censorship, colorism, creative non-fiction, Feminism, Hanan al-Shaykh, Huda Al-Marashi, Iraq War, Iraqi-American, Islamophobia, journaling, memoir, motherhood, Naguib Mahfouz, pen names, process, racism, self-censorship, sexism, shame, visibility, western canon

My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....

09.032017September 10, 2019

Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags anthology, community, Compassionate Curating, curating, editing, Fatimah Asghar, gender, genderqueer, Halal If You Hear Me, identity, intersectionality, Islamophobia, Khalid Albaih, Muslim, new writers, post-9/11, queer, Safia Elhillo, state violence, stereotypes, tradition, trans, Women, xenophobia

Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...

06.102016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Bettering American Poetry, biography, canon, class, editor bias, Fatimah Asghar, gender, identity, Interview, Islamophobia, literary community, literary landscape, literature, Performance, poetry, reader bias, religion, slam poetry, social media, the count, tokenism, viral

What would you like to see change in the literary world, or how would you “better” American poetry? Can American poetry be “bettered?” I think...

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