M. Önder Göncüoğlu / Roots, History, and the Possibility of Coexistence: Horizontal and Vertical Consciousness in Amin Maalouf’s Ports of Call

September 21, 2017

Roots, History, and the Possibility of Coexistence: Horizontal and Vertical Consciousness in Amin Maalouf’s Ports of Call (published in NDQ 84.1/2) M. Önder Göncüoğlu Introduction A Lebanese journalist and novelist born in 1949, Amin Maalouf is a person of multiple identities. Like most of his fictional characters, he is formed by

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Short Take: Domesticity and Hi-Fi Living

September 20, 2017

Bill Caraher I’m totally enamored with J. Borgerson’s and J. Schroeder’s Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America (2017) published by MIT Press. The book explores the remarkable world of album covers from the 1950s and 1960s not from the heights of pop music (which was still dominated

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Daniela Koleva / Migrants, Refugees, and Games of Othering: An Eastern European Perspective

September 19, 2017

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.

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In Our Own Words: Native Impressions

September 15, 2017

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

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Lucy Ganje / Borderlines: Accounts Paid, Accounts Due

September 14, 2017

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

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Lois Roma-Deeley / Refugee Body

September 12, 2017

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

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Yusuf Eradam / My Life=A Haiku: The Transnational Eco-Ecesis of an Anatolian Boy via Creativity in the Age of the Anthropocene

September 7, 2017

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

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Cody Deitz / By That Spurious Lyricism: Translations of Three Poems by Alberto Girri

September 5, 2017

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

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Çiğdem Pala Mull / Translation of Excerpts from Muslims of the Peaceful Country by İsmail Gaspıralı

August 31, 2017

“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

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Ute Kraidy / Frontera

August 29, 2017

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

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