
A Public Space Check out what James Ketterer of Global Engagement has to say about our Cairo portfolio!
Source: globalengagement.foreignpolicyblogs.com
One of the biggest mistakes any political analyst could make is to read only other political analyses.To do so islimiting in many ways and, more

A Public Space Join Electric Literature for an evening of music, film, and readings. Short films by Martha Colburn, readings by APS contributor Jim Shepard and Michael Cunningham, and a performance by Miho Hatori, former vocalist of Cibo Matto and collaborator of Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and Blackalicious.

A Public Space Tune in to WorldStreams October 28 at 10:00 to hear an interview with "Cairo 2010: After Kefaya" editor Brian T. Edwards.
Source: www.worldstreams.org
WorldStreams Radio, a World Fusion internet radio station

A Public Space Launch party! Join us Saturday at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn for champagne, readings, good company, and free copies of APS to the first 100 customers in the door after 7:00 PM. Stop in and say hi!
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Man I wish I could be there! Good luck and we'll drop by next time we're in the city.tick..tock...said the clock...

A Public Space Hey San Francisco. Check out Ibrahim El Batout's film Eye of the Sun at the Arab Film Festival this weekend. Then for further reading, pick up a copy of APS 9, which features an interview with the director.
Source: www.aff.org
From once being the capital of Egypt during the Pharaonic era and a sacred location marked by the visit of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, Ein Shams has become one of Cairo's poorest and most neglected neighbourhoods. ...

The Focus Portfolio in APS 9 introduces the next generation of Egyptian writers. You are stuck in traffic in downtown Cairo. Zahma—a blockage. The cars are packed in impossibly thick and there is only the slightest of forward movement. ...

A Public Space Issue 9 is here! Take a walk along the Nile Corniche in our Cairo Portfolio; enter the Glitter Girl Contest with Danielle Evans; question Reality and Memory with David Shields; and go fishing with T. C. Boyle. Poetry by Derek Walcott, Idra Novey, and Mary Jo Bang; Gary Amdahl at play in the fields of Cinnabar; and much, much more. Renew or subscribe now, and watch for excerpts on the website.

A Public Space Find out what this U is doing in Afghanistan tonight at BAM. Benjamin Anastas, Teju Cole, Jenny Davidson, Claudia Gonson, and Benjamin Kegan. Tickets here: http://tr.im/ATDc

A Public Space See Benjamin Kegan's film Team Taliban with us on October 15 for You Can't Be Anything You Want, the opening night of our Between the Lines series at BAM. Also performing: Benjamin Anastas, Teju Cole, Jenny Davidson, and Claudia Gonson as David Bowie. http://teamtalibanfilm.com/
Source: teamtalibanfilm.com
documentary film Team Taliban directed by Benjamin Kegan, PlanetEye Films

A Public Space "Why were we given something as amazing as imagination, if we’re not going to use it?" APS contributor Jim Shepard on fiction-based non-fiction.
Source: electricliterature.com
The first worry writers have when they consider working with something like historical events has to do with the issue of authority: as in, where do I get off writing about that? Well, here’s the good ...

A Public Space APS is tweeting! Follow us at @APublicSpace.

A Public Space APS contributor Robyn Schiff will be reading and discussing her work at The New School in NYC on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30. Tickets $5. Get 'em now!
Source: tinyurl.com
The New School for General Studies provides our students with an array of possibilities whether it be to pursue a master’s degree, online degree program, or just take a general studies course.

A Public Space "I especially like to write as a man... men are very simple creatures, much simpler than women": the BBC interviews Petina Gappah.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Bola Mosuro talks to Petina Gappah about the creation of her debut collection of short stories, 'An Elegy for Easterly'.























