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The valley’s thirty thousand olive trees stood like dignified victors on the land, each as self-possessed as a single rose.
@nylam.bsky.social"[Y]our praise of a sublime flood that altered the course of life beyond return." Bahar Orang, "Flood" in the Ex-Puritan issue, 'Resistance and Hope' ex-puritan.ca/flood
@nylam.bsky.social"[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...
@thegrindto.bsky.socialReposted by @nylam.bsky.socialThe Grind's fall reading list includes titles from Patrick DeWitt, @nylam.bsky.social, Ericka Hart, Sallie Fullerton and more.
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@nylam.bsky.socialReposted by @nylam.bsky.socialLeila and Khaled is on the Fall Reading List at @thegrindto.bsky.social
www.thegrindmag.ca/fall-reading...
@nylam.bsky.socialLeila and Khaled is on the Fall Reading List at @thegrindto.bsky.social
www.thegrindmag.ca/fall-reading...
@nylam.bsky.socialPostcard!
@nylam.bsky.socialReposted by @nylam.bsky.socialThank you to @49thshelf.bsky.social for inviting me to an interview about Leila and Khaled, a novel about 1948.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/08...
@electricliterature.comReposted by @nylam.bsky.socialBareerah Ghani interviews Nyla Matuk about her debut novel, LEILA AND KHALID. They talk about Palestinian identity, writing romance charged with grief and history, and more.
@nylam.bsky.socialBrilliant resistance poet and activist -- well worth reading this short biography of Sulafa Hijjawi. #nationofpoets
@nylam.bsky.socialI love this ghazal, "When We Meet," by Sahar Choudhury in @rowayat.bsky.social
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@nylam.bsky.socialThank you to weekly book columnist Makda Mulatu on CBC Radio Active for this glowing review of Leila and Khaled this week!
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
@nylam.bsky.socialReposted by @nylam.bsky.socialMany thanks to Electric Literature for the invitation to speak about Leila and Khaled. 1 Sept. 2026 ⬇️
Literally no one cares about the precious fears of a trillion dollar company regretfully moving in lockstep with its openly fascist peers.
@nylam.bsky.socialMany thanks to Electric Literature for the invitation to speak about Leila and Khaled. 1 Sept. 2026 ⬇️
@nylam.bsky.socialmight exist fundamentally outside the boundaries the lyric can address—into disappearing. Craft success is contingent upon ethical and political failure."
"Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" 2/2
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
@nylam.bsky.socialRe-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
@nylam.bsky.socialMany thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social for running my poem "The East is not a Looking Glass" in Number 14, where I read for the fiction submissions to the issue.
rowayat.org/the-east-is-...
@nylam.bsky.socialThank you to @49thshelf.bsky.social for inviting me to an interview about Leila and Khaled, a novel about 1948.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/08...
