Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely read from Laâbi’s novel The Bottom of the Jar in its first English translation, and Laâbi reads a list of advice, wisdoms and aspirations for new writers.

The Bottom of the Jar recreates Laâbi’s childhood city of Fez, Morocco, through Nanoussa, his semi-fictional kindred spirit. It holds the energy of the final days of the French occupation, and the path to liberation.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Graphic design by Rand Raid

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Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani delivers a powerful Edward W. Said London Lecture, where he confronts the reality of the ongoing Gaza genocide and Israel's assault on international law and Palestinians. Sourani fled Gaza in late 2023 when his home was bombed, and now lives with his family in Cairo. Sourani is a member of the South African delegation on the genocide case against Israel before the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Graphic design by Rand Raid

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A Friend’s Kitchen emerges in the aftermath of Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s arrival to London in 2012, after a forced exile from Sudan, when he was separated from his wife and children for nearly five years. During late, uncertain nights awake in a strange city, he would write brief, mystical, often stream-of-consciousness texts to post on Facebook, his primary means of communication with loved ones in Khartoum. The midnight musings soon developed into poems.

In this episode, Al-Raddi reads from this collection, with reflections and translations from poets Bryar Bajalan and Shook.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Graphic design by Rand Raid

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.