PRESS: INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS (selected)
Interviews
Featured in Al-Majallah Magazine,
February 2008
Featured in
Domani Magazine, Japan, January 2008.
“Miracles of the
Word: Nathalie Handal,” by Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian, South
Africa, Friday, September 28 to October 4, 2007, 2-3.
The Front Row with
Dean Dalton, PBS Houston, KUHF 88.7FM Houston Public Radio, Tuesday,
April 17, 2007.
Lilian Care,
co-host, “The Progressive Forum,” KPFT 90.1 FM Pacifica Radio Houston,
April 5, 2007.
Arab American Writer as
Ambassador for Middle East by Andrea
Shalal-Esa, Reuters,
December 19, 2006.
For Arab
American Playwrights, A Sense of Purpose by
Dinitia Smith, February 11, 2006,
The New York Times.
“Nathalie Handal :
Intervista,” a cura di Roberto Dedenaro, Il Piccolo, 3/11/2006
http://www.sidaja.eu/Rivista/n00/Nathalie-Handal/pag-1.htm.
“The Turbulence of
Dream and the Quiet of Prophet: Poet, playwright, teacher,” Interview
with Nathalie Handal, IMEU, August 23, 2006.
http://imeu.net/new/article002665.shtml
“Interview with
Nathalie Handal,” by Lisa Suhair Majaj, International Feminist
Journal of Politics, 8:4 December 2006, 612-617. Routledge.
One of the Featured Writers in Of
Stories and Storytellers by Lisa Suhair Majaj.
Photographs by Lorraine Chittock,
Aramco World.
Nathalie Handal Globalizes the Palestine Center,
by Matt Horton, The Washington
Report on the Middle East
Affairs,
December 2005, 64-65.
Handal and a Language of
Transcendence, by Dr. Omnia Amin,
The Jordan Times.
“La
Poesía Palestina, Con Cuerpo de Mujer, Entrevista con Nathalie Handal,”
Patricio Abusleme Hoffman, con la
colaboración de Nicole Saffie Guevara,
Al Damir a Conciencia,
Santiago, Chile, No 39, Noviembre 2004.
“Poetry as Homeland: Interview with Nathalie Handal,”
by Rhian Kohashi O’Rourke, Center for
American Progress.
“Ten Writers of
Note,” The San Francisco Chronicle.
“The Art of
Literary Activism: An Interview with Nathalie Handal,” by Paulette Beete,
Folio: A Literary Journal of American University, Spring 2003.
Nathalie Handal on
NPR, Talk of the Nation, March 11, 2003.
Nathalie Handal
interviewed by Folio Magazine, American University, Washington,
DC, May 2003.
“Anthology breaks
the silence surrounding Arab women poets Nathalie Handal set to mine
a hidden seam of talent and uncover its diversity,”
by Kaelen Wilson Goldie, Special for The Daily Star, Lebanon, 2003.
Nathalie Handal and “Arab American Women
Poets Showcase Their Work,” by Ghada Elnajjar, Washington File Staff
Writer, llP/G/NEA-SA, Department of State.
Nathalie Handal
speaks to Kojo Nnamdi, Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU
88.5FM, American University Radio, Wednesday, November 13, 2002.
Interviewed by BBC.co.uk/Persian/Arts,
November 2002, “This Week From New York.”
Interviewed by Valerie Jackson for WABE-FM,
90.1FM, Public Broadcasting Atlanta (NPR—WABE.org), program, “Between
the Lines,” produced by Marjory Lowman.
“One on One with Nathalie Handal,”
Interviewed by Rachel Barenblat, Pif Magazine, November 2001.
An Interview with Nathalie Handal, by
Sabah al-Zwein for Al-Nahar Newspaper, Beirut, Lebanon, March 14,
2001, 17.
Reviews
The Lives of Rain
reviewed by Jon Tribble, Crab Orchard Review, Vol 11, No.1,
Winter/Spring 2006, 224-225.
Review of The Lives of Rain
by Dena El Saffar,
Multicultural Review, Summer 2006, 69.
Review of The Lives of Rain by Cat
Bohannon, Poetry Center, The University of Arizona, Volume 31
#1, fall 2005/Winter 2006, 6.
The Lives of Rain
and The Neverfield, Reviewed by Matt Horton, The Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2006, Vol. XXV, No.3, 78.
The Lives of Rain,
Reviewed by Elmaz Abinader,
Melus: The Journal of the Society
for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic
Literature in the United States, Winter 2006,
256-259.
The Lives of Rain
and The Neverfield, Reviewed by Eric Hooglund, Journal of
Palestine Studies, 129-130.
Review of The
Lives of Rain and Spell, by
Jackleen Salam in Alwaqt, Bahrain,
September
28, 2006.
Review of
Spell (CD) in Aramco, Sept/Oct
2006.
Review of The Neverfield
by Lori Tsang, Multicultural Review, Winter
2005.
The Lives
of Rain reviewed by Dan Olivas,
Moorishgirl.com
The Lives
of Rain, reviewed in Aramco,
September/October 2005.
Artist of the Month,
March 2005,
This Week in Palestine.
The Poetry of Arab Women
reviewed by Maryam Jameeleh, The Muslim World Book Review 22:4,
2002.
“This is not Who We Are,” by Naomi
Shihab Nye, on The Poetry of Arab Women,
The Opray Magazine,
April 2002, 86.
The Poetry of Arab Women
reviewed by Pauline Homsi Vinson, Middle East Women’s Studies Review,
Volume XVI Nos. 3/4, Fall 2001/Winter 2002, 21-22.
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women,
Rula Abisaab, University of Akron, Middle East Studies Association,
Volume 36, Number 1, Summer 2003, 76-77.
“Common Language: Political and
social themes unite diverse works in The Poetry
of Arab Women,” by Rosemary Herbert, Boston
Herald, Friday, February 22, 2002, 41.
Charles Flowers, director of the
Academy of American Poets announced that The
Poetry of Arab Women is now an
Academy of American Poets/Poetry Book Club
Bestseller. Refer to “Solace and Steady Sales” by Mark Bibbins (NYC),
Publishers Weekly, November 19, 2001, 29.
Top Picks Poetry
Anthologies from Poetry.about.com.
http://poetry.about.com/library/picks/aatpbookanthologies.htm
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women
by Rachel Barenblat, Pif Magazine, November 2001.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women by Ray González, The Bloomsbury
Review, 21:5, September/October 2001.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women by Salih J. Altoma, Multicultural Review,
September 2001, 84-85.
Review by Sandy
McKinney of The Poetry of Arab Women, Foreword Magazine, 68-69.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology by Professor Issa
Boullata, 75:2, Spring 2001, World Literature Today, 405.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, Wisconsin
Bookwatch, July 2001, 4.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, Publisher’s
Weekly, April 2001.
Review of The
Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology by John Green,
Booklist, American Literary Association.
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women: A
Contemporary Anthology, Aramco, 52:2, March/April 2001, 44.
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women: A
Contemporary Anthology by Ghassan Zaqtan, Al Ayyam Magazine,
April 2001.
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women: A
Contemporary Anthology in An-Nahar, Beirut, Lebanon, March
14, 2001.
Review of The Poetry of Arab Women: A
Contemporary Anthology by Subhi Hadidi, Al Quds Al-Arabi,
London.
Review of The NeverField, World
Literature Today, 74:2, Spring 2000, 371.
“Poetry as Homeland: The Search for
Rootedness,” by Lisa Suhair Majaj, A Review of The NeverField and
Traveling Rooms, Al Jadid Magazine, 5:29, Fall 1999, 29.
Review of The NeverField, Al Quds,
London, November 11, 1999, 10.
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