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Podcast: BULAQ | بولاق
Episode: The Cat Is Out of The Bag
Description: This episode looks at the Fall 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which focuses on cats: in contemporary Arabic stories, in erotic poetry, in medieval scholarship, in Egyptian art, in Palestinian politics, and more.We read from:Ghada Samman's “Beheading the Cat,” translated by Issa Boullata.The poetry of Rasha Omran, in the issue in Arabic, French, and English.Al-Jawbari's advice on avoiding criminals with cats, translated for the issue by Dima El-Mouallem.We also focus on:Karim Zidan's essay on cats in Egyptian art, “Felines, Fellahin, and Fortune Teller...