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An Adventure on the Aegean Sea
An Adventure on the Aegean Sea
Introducing “Maneuver” by the Fisherman of Halicarnassus
Aysel K. Basci
Aug 26
Global Literary Theory is reborn
Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Absentees
Evelyn Jean Pine
Did Don Quixote Long for Muslim Spain?
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Learning to Accept a Diminished Thing
Ira Fader
Dreams by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Aysel K. Basci
Dreams by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Aysel K. Basci
Write for Medium’s Most Multilingual Publication
Write for Medium’s Most Multilingual Publication
Global Literary Theory welcomes writers from across the world
Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Nov 14, 2023
Global Literary Theory is reborn
Global Literary Theory is reborn
New team and newly empowered by the Boost
Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Aug 25
Notes of a Boost Nominator
Notes of a Boost Nominator
Featuring the best literary stories on GLT and beyond
Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Jul 29
“We want to live as decent human beings”
“We want to live as decent human beings”
Fannie Lou Hamer in the March Trilogy
Matthew Teutsch
May 5, 2022
A Poet Inspired by the Sea
A Poet Inspired by the Sea
Tanpınar’s Letter to a Turkish Girl from Antalya
Aysel K. Basci
Aug 6
The Tanpınar Challenge
The Tanpınar Challenge
How to translate poetry that defies translation
Aysel K. Basci
Jul 28
Jane Eyre in the Wonderland of the Iranian Publishing Industry
Jane Eyre in the Wonderland of the Iranian Publishing Industry
During my research for the Prismatic Jane Eyre project, I discovered many wonderful ways in which Charlotte Brontë’s novel is integrated…
Kayvan Tahmasebian
Nov 21, 2023
The Pioneer of Arabic Prose Poetry was Mute
The Pioneer of Arabic Prose Poetry was Mute
A portrait of Syrian poet Riad Saleh Hussein
Saleh Razzouk
Jul 1
Adventures in Aligarh, India
Adventures in Aligarh, India
A Visit to the Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences
Affan Shikoh
May 23
Emily Dickinson Stops the Clocks
Emily Dickinson Stops the Clocks
A new reading of her poem “The Longest Hour”
Ira Fader
Jun 10
Does Time Heal All Wounds?
Does Time Heal All Wounds?
“They” say “yes.” Emily Dickinson says “Not so fast!”
Ira Fader
Jul 15
Emily Dickinson Banishes the Air
Emily Dickinson Banishes the Air
Her poetry dares us to divides the light
Ira Fader
Feb 20
Stumbling through the Foreign
Stumbling through the Foreign
Poupeh Missaghi’s poetics of translation
Anna Learn
Jul 28
An Arabic Poem for Sylvia Plath
An Arabic Poem for Sylvia Plath
“The Bad Guy” by Riad Saleh Hussein
Saleh Razzouk
Aug 8
Introducing a Master of the Turkish Short Story
Introducing a Master of the Turkish Short Story
Cemil Kavukçu and his work “Aslangöz”
Zeynep Öztekin Yıldırım
Aug 16
Chindia in the Mind
Chindia in the Mind
Sino-Indian comparisons in philosophy and literature
Soni Wadhwa
Aug 15
What Connected China with the Arab World?
What Connected China with the Arab World?
Retracing medieval Chinese-Arab trade networks
Biblioteca Natalie Journal
Aug 8
Ahmet Haşim and His Poems
Ahmet Haşim and His Poems
“A poem is not a story; it is a silent song.” — Ahmet Haşim
Aysel K. Basci
Aug 16
Learning to Accept a Diminished Thing
Learning to Accept a Diminished Thing
Robert Frost’s avian affections
Ira Fader
Aug 21
Honoring the Writers of Aleppo
Honoring the Writers of Aleppo
How a city of modernity survives a civil war
Saleh Razzouk
Aug 14
The Dog by Sabahattin Ali
The Dog by Sabahattin Ali
A new translation of a classic Turkish writer into English
Aysel K. Basci
Jul 21
The Storyteller of Iran
The Storyteller of Iran
Introducing Samad Behrangi, a pioneer of children’s literature
Shara Atashi
Jul 22
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus
How Turkish writer Cevat Şakir continued the tradition of Homer and Herodotus
Aysel K. Basci
Aug 11
A Manifesto for Women’s Writing
A Manifesto for Women’s Writing
Jahan Malek Khatun in 14th-century Iran
Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Dec 21, 2020
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