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Rebecca Ruth Gould

United Kingdom

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Global poetics+politics @SOAS | @balaghas @PoetryExile @globalsouths | author @VersoBooks | free 🇵🇸 |Non-aligned leftist. The Textual Materialist on Substack

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  • The Textual Materialist

    1 week ago | rgould.substack.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

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  • Life beyond genocide

    1 week ago | newarab.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

    When he embarked on writing On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza, his newly published mosaic of life in Gaza before the genocide, Palestinian writer and journalist Mohammed Omer Almoghayer decided to narrate the stories he had to tell in the present tense. By recasting events from the past as if they were happening in the present, Mohammed succeeds in making “Gaza feel alive once more,” in his own words.

  • Life beyond genocide in On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza

    1 week ago | newarab.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

    When he embarked on writing On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza, his newly-published mosaic of life in Gaza before the genocide, Palestinian writer and journalist Mohammed Omer Almoghayer decided to narrate the stories he had to tell in the present tense. By recasting events from the past as if they were happening in the present, Mohammed succeeds in making “Gaza feel alive once more,” in his own words.

  • An Early Modern Arabic Treatise on Jinns

    3 weeks ago | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

    How a newly discovered tale from the Caucasus reveals the diversity of premodern IslamFrom the early medieval period until well into the 20th century, literary production across the northern Caucasus — a region comprising Daghestan, as well as Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Circassia to the west — took place overwhelmingly in Arabic-script literatures.

  • A Story That Is Finished Before It Begins

    1 month ago | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

    Global Literary Theory (ISSN 3049–8724) brings world literatures into comparison. We elucidate the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics, and support writers from all around the world. Medium’s only quadrilingual publication. We support Palestinian liberation. Follow publicationIntroducing Atefe Asadi’s “A Coffin for Four”Last year, I was thrilled to discover “A Coffin for Four,” a short story by the Iranian writer Atefe Asadi (b. 1994, Tehran), who currently resides in Germany.

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Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social)
Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social) @rrgould
1 Jun 25

For The Textual Materialist, I wrote about Mohammed Omer Almoghayer's excellent new memoir of life in Gaza before the genocide, illustrated by photos from Gaza taken April 2024: On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza published by @orbooks https://t.co/dJL9RXpWr6 https://t.co/I1fV3ZTTKG

Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social)
Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social) @rrgould
20 May 25

RT @PoetryExile: Please share widely! Two children found beneath the rubble during a pause in the genocide are seeking surviving members of…

Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social)
Rebecca Ruth Gould (rrgould.bsky.social) @rrgould
20 May 25

RT @InesHajj9: Breaking News:🚨 The Spanish Parliament has approved legislation to halt all arms sales to Israel. https://t.co/wwOVgJL1Y5