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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 · 43m
"[Y]our praise of a sublime flood that altered the course of life beyond return." Bahar Orang, "Flood" in the Ex-Puritan issue, 'Resistance and Hope' ex-puritan.ca/flood
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FLOOD
Read Bahar Orang's poem "FLOOD" in Resistance & Hope, the special issue of The Ex-Puritan.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 6h
"[W]ould appeal to people who enjoy a gentle slow-burn narrative and who are engaged by complex ideas and film references" ... a short review of 'Leila and Khaled' from the Québec Library Association: abqla.qc.ca/en/review/le...
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Review: Leila & Khaled — ABQLA
Leila & Khaled is a slow-paced novel set in Palestine from the perspective of a Palestinian-Canadian film scholar. Leila, touring Palestine as part of an academic delegation, meets Khaled, the to...
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Grind's fall reading list includes titles from Patrick DeWitt, @nylam.bsky.social, Ericka Hart, Sallie Fullerton and more. Check out our latest fiction and non-fiction recommendations here:
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Fall Reading List
Current and former Grind editors Richie Assaly and Phillip Dwight Morgan curate a selection of mostly Canadian fiction and non-fiction books…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Leila and Khaled is on the Fall Reading List at @thegrindto.bsky.social www.thegrindmag.ca/fall-reading...
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Fall Reading List
Current and former Grind editors Richie Assaly and Phillip Dwight Morgan curate a selection of mostly Canadian fiction and non-fiction books…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Leila and Khaled is on the Fall Reading List at @thegrindto.bsky.social www.thegrindmag.ca/fall-reading...
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Fall Reading List
Current and former Grind editors Richie Assaly and Phillip Dwight Morgan curate a selection of mostly Canadian fiction and non-fiction books…
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
might exist fundamentally outside the boundaries the lyric can address—into disappearing. Craft success is contingent upon ethical and political failure." "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" 2/2 proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
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Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine
Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...
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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
Band from the early 90s?
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That bench looks like one in the restaurant in 'My Dinner with André.'
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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 · 20/07/2026
Over the years we've observed that the CBC has humiliated itself out of credible journalism all on its own, because it is essentially a puppet of the Canadian Zionist state.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I see. In 2021 @brodiefenlon.bsky.social and editorial others at CBC met reluctantly with Palestinian Canadian scholars and lawyers and were invited to consult on all matters related to Palestine and have not done so once. So their poor journalism remains including denial of genocide. Noted.
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is 'Bay Press' Canadian? Or did they just need the content from another shill for colonial lies and normalization?
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The slap in the face for me from this state media outlet is that while they were happy to promote my first book of poems, when it came time to review or list 'Resisting Canada' they declined. "This is not for us." No, I guess if you are stenographers of the Canadian state, you'd best avoid it.
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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
is a daring narrative gambit that asks if you can withstand a Palestinian wresting away the permission to narrate." --Saeed Teebi, author of 'Her First Palestinian' and 'You Will not Kill our Imagination' 3/3 Pre-order from your local bookseller! houseofanansi.com/collections/...
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Leila and Khaled
A decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians—one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land—searching for home in each other. Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegatio...
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
contemporary Palestine through the vehicle of an academic tour or meditating on the persistence of art amid destruction. Brimming with erudition and luxuriously researched history, this novel 2/3
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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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