Migrants, Refugees, and Games of Othering: An Eastern European Perspective (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Daniela Koleva At the 2016 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Austin, Texas, along with sessions addressing my professional interests of African-American and American literature, I was drawn to presentations on travel, migration, and border crossing.
An exhibition of prints created by Daniel Heyman and NDQ’s Art Editor Lucy Ganje (titled “In Our Own Words: Native Impressions) is currently on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The twenty-six prints on handmade paper feature portraits of Native Americans living in North Dakota. Portions of interviews
Borderlines: Accounts Paid, Accounts Due (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Lucy Ganje This piece portrays the movement of two families, both caught up in transnational border policies. Transnational borders within the United States of America are crossed daily—no need for a passport, no luggage or car searches, no checkpoint questions, at
Refugee Body (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Lois Roma-Deeley If I could speak from the afterlife, my first words would be: the sea is harsh and unforgiving and I would tell you leave this city of tanks and guns—and everyone we’ve ever known. Our church will fill with soldiers. Women will
My Life=A Haiku: The Transnational Eco-Ecesis of an Anatolian Boy via Creativity in the Age of the Anthropocene (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Yusuf Eradam PDF To my late cats Minnosh, Poe Yavri Mou, and the present ones Raki and Sharab If you understand others, you have
By That Spurious Lyricism: Translations of Three Poems by Alberto Girri (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Cody Deitz PDF Alberto Girri (1919–1991) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and translator. Beyond the prolific body of his own poetry spanning some thirty volumes, Girri is perhaps best known for
“Utopian imagination” is as textured and complex as ever in our day: often ironic, potentially vibrant and compelling across national and linguistic boundaries. NDQ is very proud to publish Çiğdem Pala Mull’s original “Translation of Excerpts from Darürrahat Müslümanları (Muslims of the Peaceful Country) by İsmail Gaspıralı.” This will be the first appearance of
Published in NDQ 84.1/2 Ute Kraidy holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, and a master’s degree in Journalism (Magazine Production) from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. She has fifteen years of experience designing for the nonprofit, health, and
Modern Hospitality (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Kyle Conway PDF Few words are as potent as the two I have paired in the title to this essay. Yoked together, they’re explosive, a tinderbox and a match. And yet the first word calls out for the second. One
Balkan Beats: Migrations, Stories, and Memories (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Marc-Antoine Frébutte PDF 1. Preface Since the refugee crisis began in the summer of 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the Middle East and the Balkans on their way to Northern and Western Europe
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