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Nyla Matuk

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www.nylamatuk.ca The valley’s thirty thousand olive trees stood like dignified victors on the land, each as self-possessed as a single rose.

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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 4h
Postcard!
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you to @49thshelf.bsky.social for inviting me to an interview about Leila and Khaled, a novel about 1948. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/08...
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Living History: The Chat with Nyla Matuk · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
In Nyla Matuk’s haunting novel Leila & Khaled (Anansi), Leila, a Palestinian Canadian, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied ...
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/09/2026
Bareerah Ghani interviews Nyla Matuk about her debut novel, LEILA AND KHALID. They talk about Palestinian identity, writing romance charged with grief and history, and more. buff.ly/fyagyaK
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Brilliant resistance poet and activist -- well worth reading this short biography of Sulafa Hijjawi. #nationofpoets
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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you are not yet a subscriber to SEND MY LOVE TO ANYONE, now’s the time. @themockler.bsky.social and Carrianne Leung are editing and incredible series; essential reading for every writer in #canlit open.substack.com/pub/sendmylo...
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There were days when the drones were so loud, they were ear-splitting through my phone.
Nyla Matuk | Reflections: After the Giller Boycott
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from my novel, Leila and Khaled. lithub.com/leila-and-ka...
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Leila and Kahled
The sunlight streaming through the arrival hall windows was a dirty gold the afternoon our flight from Paris landed. The airport’s walkways, draped in stock images of healthy, smiling families, sub…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I love this ghazal, "When We Meet," by Sahar Choudhury in @rowayat.bsky.social rowayat.org/when-we-meet...
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When We Meet & occupier artclass - Rowayat
When We Meet (Ghazal) Which one of us will have crossed the sea when we meet?Will you recognize…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you to weekly book columnist Makda Mulatu on CBC Radio Active for this glowing review of Leila and Khaled this week! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many thanks to Electric Literature for the invitation to speak about Leila and Khaled. 1 Sept. 2026 ⬇️
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/09/2026
Literally no one cares about the precious fears of a trillion dollar company regretfully moving in lockstep with its openly fascist peers.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many thanks to Electric Literature for the invitation to speak about Leila and Khaled. 1 Sept. 2026 ⬇️
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Re-upping this brilliant 2023 essay by writer, poet and artist by Fargo Tbakhi: "All the qualities of Craft, the qualities which make a “good” poem, pressured this violence—the violence of the liberal American unwilling to put their body and their peace of mind on the line, a violence which 1/2
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Many thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social for running my poem "The East is not a Looking Glass" in Number 14, where I read for the fiction submissions to the issue. rowayat.org/the-east-is-...
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The East is not a Looking Glass - Rowayat
“Eye on the ball,” the revolution said, finding an invincible summer. “Protect your peace,” the mashrabiyya whispered, and…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My report on the Atomium in Brussels is in PN Review 290, just released.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from my novel, Leila and Khaled. lithub.com/leila-and-ka...
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Leila and Kahled
The sunlight streaming through the arrival hall windows was a dirty gold the afternoon our flight from Paris landed. The airport’s walkways, draped in stock images of healthy, smiling families, sub…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you to @49thshelf.bsky.social for inviting me to an interview about Leila and Khaled, a novel about 1948. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/08...
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Living History: The Chat with Nyla Matuk · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
In Nyla Matuk’s haunting novel Leila & Khaled (Anansi), Leila, a Palestinian Canadian, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied ...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"I was thinking about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie." #Dolly 💔
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A smart review for Leila and Khaled in the Montreal Review of Books. No spoilers -- also nice! Although my depiction is indeed not the one we have come to picture, allegories abound.... mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/leil...
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Leila & Khaled • Montreal Review of Books
Matuk’s depiction of Palestine is unlike the one we have come to picture in the wake of the war in Gaza.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I gave a little craft talk on the Weekly Newsletter for "The Shit Nobody Tells You" Substack! 6 mins. theshitaboutwriting.substack.com/i/207466887/...
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✨CeCe's Writing Tension Course Now Features The Acquisitions Pipeline! Plus, Healthy Writing Habits to Cultivate✨
Also, don't doubt that you're still a writer even during periods of creative silence...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Leila and Khaled in the Fall 2026 book roundup at @miznaarabart.bsky.social! mizna.org/mizna-online...
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30 More SWANA Books to Read in 2026 - Mizna
2026 continues to be an exciting year for SWANA literature, with many stunning debuts, new releases and translations from longtime favorites, and experiments in new genres.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're honoured to publish Hisham Matar's new foreword to the upcoming re-issue of Edward Said's OUT OF PLACE, featuring some wonderful photographs shared with us by Mariam Said. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hisham-mat...
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Hisham Matar's New Introduction to Edward Said's "Out Of Place"
An unreleased acclaimed Libyan-British writer's new foreword to "Out of Place" - Edwar
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I loved, loved this interview of novelist Patrick Cottrell conducted by Sarah Nicole Prickett. Mostly because I could relate so much to what they both said; think they themselves are. Brilliant conversation! thetorontoreview.ca/patrick-cott...
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Sarah Nicole Prickett and Patrick Cottrell in conversation | Toronto Review
Sarah Nicole Prickett interviews Patrick Cottrell in a conversation about losing their brothers to suicide, the novel, Rachel Cusk, Henry James, and more.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'Leila and Khaled' is on the @quillandquire "most excited about fiction" list for Fall 2026. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa...
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2026 Fall Preview: Fiction - Quill and Quire
Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features fiction. Nonfiction will be featured next week. Short fiction, graphic...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Emily Jacir's 'Letter from Roma' (2013) creativetimereports.org/2013/09/03/e... #Italy #Sicily
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Emily Jacir: Letter From Roma | Creative Time Reports
Emily Jacir's research for Creative Time's Global Residency program began with the question "What's left of the left in Italy?" She found herself digging through archives, discovering films made in so...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My report on the Atomium in Brussels is in PN Review 290, just released.
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am a mirror set before your eyes.” — Attar. Issue 14: MIRRORS is now live. New fiction, poetry, CNF, interviews, and Arabic literature in translation every few days throughout July, start reading by engaging with our Featured Artist Shirin Abedinirad. rowayat.org/tag/issue-14
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m thrilled that a group of discerning booksellers across Canada has voted Leila and Khaled onto the summer Booksellers List! I hope you will pick up a copy or pre-order from your local independent bookstore. indiebookstores.ca. Publication set for August 11, 2026 @indiebookstoresca.bksy.social
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Rowayat Issue 14, "Mirrors," is here! Will be a rolling publish schedule. Cf @rowayat.bsky.social rowayat.org/making-the-m...
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Making the Miraculous Visible: Shirin Abedinirad on Mirrors, Landscape, and the Art of Presence - Rowayat
For Rowayat’s fourteenth issue, we could imagine no better guide to its theme than Shirin Abedinirad. The Iranian…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Love this graphic poem, by Rayya Liebich. “HOW TO F/HOLD ON TO YOUR HUMANITY” roommagazine.com/reading-room...
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"HOW TO F/HOLD ON TO YOUR HUMANITY" by Rayya Liebich (Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest Sneak Peek) - ROOM Magazine
In a world shaped by profound injustice, how do we create amidst unrest while reclaiming rest that moves us toward justice? Today, we’re sitting with a non-fiction piece by our commissioned author for...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m thrilled that a group of discerning booksellers across Canada has voted Leila and Khaled onto the summer Booksellers List! I hope you will pick up a copy or pre-order from your local independent bookstore. indiebookstores.ca. Publication set for August 11, 2026 @indiebookstoresca.bksy.social
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In Montreal? Join me this evening to launch photographer and journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz' first book of photos documenting villages of the occupied West Bank. Galerie Articule, 5 pm.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Ghazal Mosadeq in conversation: "I didn’t want to accept my identity as the outsider in order to then be warmly embraced and let in the door." @pnreview.bsky.social #289, May-June 2026 www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/aeur...
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PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - ‘A Small Redirection, a Way of Making Space’in conversation with Ghazal Mosadeq - Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Ghazal Mosadeq - PN Review 289
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"'Leila and Khaled' is a rarity -- a torrid, deeply-felt romance that is among the starkest of interrogations on the gruesome politics of both the world and ourselves. Nyla Matuk has gifted us a narrator striking in her intelligence and willingness to chase understanding, whether tracking 1/3
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"'Leila and Khaled' is a rarity -- a torrid, deeply-felt romance that is among the starkest of interrogations on the gruesome politics of both the world and ourselves. Nyla Matuk has gifted us a narrator striking in her intelligence and willingness to chase understanding, whether tracking 1/3
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Bookforum reviews Ben Lerner's most recent novel, "Transcription," something between Sebald, Lerner's other autofiction, and the magnificent trace-and-excursus style of his poetry collection 'The Lights' www.bookforum.com/print/3204/m...
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Mediations in an Emergency
Ben Lerner’s latest novel contemplates multiple layers of reality – Brandon Taylor
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A must-read by the brilliant materialist political theorist Nancy Fraser.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New deadline for all genres! May 15:
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
+ this video was made to go alongside the library's profile: www.youtube.com/shorts/cNkPZ...
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Gaza's Phoenix Library Rises
YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Feisal G. Mohamed's 'Nowhere is safe in Gaza' is a harrowing book length poem forthcoming with Brick Books for which I provided a blurb: www.brickbooks.ca/shop/nowhere...
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Nowhere is safe in Gaza by Feisal G. Mohamed - Brick Books
A book-length erasure poem that takes as its source text South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with violations of the Genocide Convention. 7 X 9 Inches | 200...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Feisal G. Mohamed's 'Nowhere is safe in Gaza' is a harrowing book length poem forthcoming with Brick Books for which I provided a blurb: www.brickbooks.ca/shop/nowhere...
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Nowhere is safe in Gaza by Feisal G. Mohamed - Brick Books
A book-length erasure poem that takes as its source text South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with violations of the Genocide Convention. 7 X 9 Inches | 200...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Pre-order away! At your local independent bookstore of course, just a phone call or a walk-in away. Thank you for pre-ordering my novel! Publication: 11 August 2026. houseofanansi.com/collections/...
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Leila and Khaled
A story of Palestinians—one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land—searching for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession. Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegati...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm a guest fiction editor at Rowayat magazine for issue 14, "Mirrors." The call for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry is still open—submissions read til May 5: rowayat.org/issue-14-mir... @rowayat.bsky.social
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Issue 14: Mirrors - Rowayat
We are open for Submissions for Issue #14: Mirrors April 1st to May 5th 2025 Click here to…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'll be a guest fiction editor at Rowayat magazine for issue 14, "Mirrors." The call for submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry is open until May 5: rowayat.org/issue-14-mir... @rowayat.bsky.social
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Issue 14: Mirrors - Rowayat
We are open for Submissions for Issue #14: Mirrors April 1st to May 5th 2025 Click here to…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Pre-order away! At your local independent bookstore of course, just a phone call or a walk-in away. Thank you for pre-ordering my novel! Publication: 11 August 2026. houseofanansi.com/collections/...
houseofanansi.com
Leila and Khaled
A story of Palestinians—one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land—searching for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession. Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegati...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'll be a guest fiction editor at Rowayat magazine for issue 14, "Mirrors." The call for submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry is open until May 5: rowayat.org/issue-14-mir... @rowayat.bsky.social
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Issue 14: Mirrors - Rowayat
We are open for Submissions for Issue #14: Mirrors April 1st to May 5th 2025 Click here to…
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A small circle in Cairo أحد عشر كوكبًا على آخر المشهد الأندلسي. A constellation, echoing Darwish’s own quiet numerology: 11 poems 11 days in February 2026 11 last nights of Ramadan 3 convergences #Rowayat The first poem to travel outward tonight — rowayat.org/eleven-stars...
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Eleven Stars over Andalusia - Rowayat
We have on this earth what makes life worth living.   Where should we go after the last…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just saw a red fox walking down the sidewalk in the middle of central London.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"The poem you don’t fully remember But remember walking in Nablus after reading it How the world seemed then A mystery..." Three poems by Dalia Taha www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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Poems by Dalia Taha — The Dial
“Enter Sun”, “Enter Wrist Pain”, and “Enter Poem”
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