Welcome to issue thirteen of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator, an artist and a curator of cultural programmes based in Amsterdam. Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see and feel the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature. Each issue has a short essay or some thoughts, a nerdy look at translation, a page from one of my notebooks, and a list of things to read, watch or listen to.You can support my work via Patreon.EPISODE 13 SHOW NOTESSumanth S Gopinath, associate professor of music theory at the University of Minnesota, discusses Steve Reich in an episode of Will Robin’s Sound Expertise Podcast.“Enough With the Solidarity Statements. Why Art Institutions Should Stop Taking Positions on Geopolitical Events They Have Nothing to Do With” by Sascha Freudenheim, published on Artnet (16 October 2023).The book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich.LISTENING, WATCHING, READINGListen to London-based DJ and producer Nabihah Iqbal’s music: her latest album DREAMER (2023) for instance, or discover her musical finds in the radio shows she hosts on NTS (like this latest episode from 10 October 2023 where she shares sounds she brought back from a recent trip to Lebanon; including “Remote Control” a 1980s tune from Beirut by Teddy Lane, music from The Bunny Tylers and Maya Yazbeck). And for the lucky ones among us in Amsterdam, Nabihah will perform at the Melkweg on 22 November 2023. Read the poem Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dyingby Palestinian-American poet and reporter Noor Hindi (and also the poem I am referring to here above. Here is the Turkish translation Kahrolsun İş Bilirlik Ahkamınız, Halkım Ölüyor by Mertcan Karakuş a.k.a. Zakkum Kök).Watch the documentary film The Shadow of the West (UK, 1983), written and narrated by Edward Said. Directed by Geoff Dunlop. In this film, Said examines Western attitudes to the Arabs and finds their origins in the Crusades, Hollywood and European empire building. He sees the Palestinian fate as the result of years of Western interference. This film is one of the ten episodes of The Arabs: A Living History and is available to watch on YouTube.

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