Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Supposed To Start Period
The Vollard Collection
time ago, Isaac Goldemberg 
, the director of the Hostos Review magazine, contacted me to be the guest editor of the seventh volume of publication. The idea was bring Latin writers of Arab origin, a relatively unexplored subject in the literary world. I quote a paragraph from the foreword I wrote for this compilation: 
"The whole project had a special attraction: it was an opportunity to settle a part of my history with a passion of my life that is literature and accept, once and for all that a good part of my written expressions were sprinkled with an ambience and Eastern tradition. The company would, Isaac told me, in bringing together the voices disrupted the Middle East who now live in Latin America in a volume that would show the readers of Hostos Review, which is created by these Latinos. (....) In the search period, any name that had a tune from the Middle East, became the object of my obsession. Emails sent daily, shamelessly asked if the maternal or paternal surname of each author was a Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian or Lebanese, also visited libraries and consulted some other friends. Gradually the voice and ran off after a short period, he had a more or less educated and a path to be traced by the move. " 
Almalafa and Calligraphy: Literature of Arab origin in Latin America was the result of more than two years of work, which came out this spring 2010. The anthology is the meeting place of the "stories we have been told and make this imagery of Arabic, despite the intangibility of the term." In the material I requested and received notice that "We live a notion of mind that dwells (the) inheritance (Arabic) circular in shape, because each of the writers who gathered here again in different ways to the past that are determined, but always return in a spiral motion, perhaps deepening, perhaps nearly forgotten, but the movement is persistent. Oriental words that have populated the past and each writer can not boot from the imagination that shapes and his narrative is recreated in environments full of sensuality, constantly asking about a source that has been tattooed in memory. "The work was divided in the" Narrative ", which contains stories and novel fragments: Carlos Azar Manzur :; Luis Fayad: Walter Garib: "Eduardo Halfon, Rodrigo Hasbun, Jorge Kattan Zablah, Carlos Martínez Assad: Alberto Mussa," The first Arab "León Rodríguez Zahar: Carlos Salem, Naief Yehya and myself.
In the "Essay" was published texts: Gabriel Zaid, Yehya Ozama Cassem, Milton Hatoum and Patricia Jacobs Barquet, among others. In the section "Poetry" appears:
Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ulises Cassab Rueda, Gary Daher Canedo, Jeanette L. Clariond, Theodore El-Saca, Rose Mary Espinosa Elias, Jorge García Usta, Jaime Hales, Farid Hidd, Rolando Kattan, Mahfud Massis, Farid Metauze, Eduardo Mitre, Nain Nómez, R. Alonso-Maria-do-Carmo, Rafid and Jaime Matías Sabines.
And finally in "Memoirs" features texts by: Hector Abad Faciolince, Barbara Jacobs: Anuar Jalife Jacobo and Diego Rojas Ahmad among others.
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