Rising LAU writers discuss their debut novels
January 10, 2012
From http://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/news/archive/rising_lau_writers_discuss_the/
The Department of Humanities at LAU organized a gathering December 15 with student Sahar
Confronting darkness with the little-known legacy of the Arab Renaissance
Al Ahram English
Sayed Mahmoud, Sunday 18 Dec 2011
Most remarkable about Rashid Al-Daif’s novel is its ability to turn questions from the end of the 19th century, the Arab Renaissance,
The complexity of unanswered ambiguities (Banipal 2008)
Sometimes the unexpected can prompt a meltdown; a tiny notice in the newspaper’s police notebook of the murder and burial of our narrator’s father three days earlier frames the novel. Learning English begins with this accidental announcement and ends with the arrival of the narrator at the village in a taxi.
More Than Just Words (iLoubnan, Nov. 12th, 2007)
November the 12th, 2007, by Jasmina Najjar, from iLoubnan.info
Welcome to the world of Rashid al-Daif. Entering this realm is challenging but extremely rewarding. Rashid al-Daif, was born in 1945 in the Northern Lebanese town of Zgharta.
West-East Divan or Procrustean Bed? (Al-Kalimah/The Word February 2007)
The Word Volume I Issue2 February 2007
by Nicola Liscutin
In 2002, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany, initiated a project of “new forms of literary encounters aimed at improving the mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern literature.”
Rashid Al-Daif: Writing to Yasurani (Al-Ahram Weekly, Nov 2005)
By Youssef Rakha
Novelist, humorist, linguist, professor: Rashid Al-Daif is, in more ways than most critics are willing to recognise, the Arab world’s answer to Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco.
Writing to Combat Memory Loss (Qantara 2004)
Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country’s civil war clearly in his mind’s eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author
رشيد الضعيف… رواية تخترق الرئة («الأخبار»٢٠١٤) ٫
العدد ٢٢٤٤
يعود في عمله الجديد «هرة سيكيريدا» (دار الساقي) إلى الحرب الأهلية. رواية بلحن جنائزي رقيق تلملم تشظّيات الكاتب في لعبة «بازل» لا تؤلف نهاياتها إلا على الإخفاق واستحالة العيش في بيروت المدينة الكوسموبوليتية القديمة
اذاعة الشرق، بيت الذاكرة
06/2013 – مقابلة رشيد الضعيف في إذاعة الشرق – برنامج بيت اذاكرة
عزيزي السيد رشيد الضعيف
حسين بن حمزة
يقف رشيد الضعيف في صفّ القارئ. يكتب الرواية التي يحبّ أن يكتبها، لكنه يشتغل على فكرة أن يحبها القارئ أيضاً. كأن مخيلته تشتغل على خطين متوازيين، لكنهما مضطران للالتقاء والجمع بين المؤلف الذي لا يتنازل عن مزاجه وأسلوبه، والقارئ الذي يقدِّر أن المؤلف فكّر به أثناء الكتابة. راكم صاحب «عزيزي السيد كاواباتا»