Welcome to issue fifteen 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. You can support my work via Patreon.EPISODE 15 SHOW NOTESListen to Amal (Hope) by Egyptian producer Molotof and Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, created in dedication of the perseverance of the Palestinian people (there is also a music video including English subtitles). Read Arundhati Roy’s address at the Munich Literature Festival: “If we allow this brazen slaughter to continue, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it. Something in our moral selves will be altered forever.” I also invite you to read Anne Boyer’s resignation letter as New York Times Magazine’s poetry editor. Watch The Burning Olive Tree, the first online reading organised by Poems for Palestine, a collective of poets I am a proud member and co-organiser of. We have brought together poets and writers from around the world, reading poetry they have written in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Poems were read in Iranian, Arabic, French, English, German…Notebook notes from Threa Almontaser: https://www.threawrites.com

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