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23rd July 2018 / 0 Comments

Westerly 63.1 – Toqburneh – تقبرني

Hey everyone,

Westerly 63.1 has been published. It holds amongst many inspiring stories, my photographs and words in a creative non-fiction piece, Toqburneh

تقبرني

63.1

 

Since 1956, Westerly has been publishing lively fiction and poetry as well as intelligent articles.

The magazine has always sought to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive.  It covers literature and culture throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Australia, particularly Western Australia, and the Asian region.

Westerly has a strong international reputation, and is listed in some of the world’s major cultural indexes. It has been instrumental in the careers of many of the regions most prominent and internationally renowned writers. These include major Western Australian writers such as Randolph Stow, Dorothy Hewett, T.A.G. Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley; highly-awarded contemporary writers, including Tim Winton, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan; and important local poets like John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan, John Mateer, and Lucy Dougan.

It is published at the Westerly Centre (formerly the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature) at the University of Western Australia, with assistance from the Western Australian State Government by an investment in the project through the Department of Culture and the Arts, and the Australian Federal Government through the Australia Council for the Arts. Our Writers’ Development Program is supported by Copyright Agency Ltd.’s Cultural Fund.

The print magazine is published twice a year in July and November, while the website publishes content throughout the year, including two Online Special Issues available for free digital download.

 

 

 

Cover image by Matthew Hooton

10th July 2018 / 0 Comments

First Print: The Palace Of Angels

Hey everyone,

Today the first copies of The Palace Of Angels arrived!

Books are going out this week and paperbacks are available through livinginthestrange, online retailers and selected stores.

 

The Palace Of Angels

Synopsis:

 

“Angels bring us our hearts. And when a heart meets a heart, the eye sees no flaw…”

Palestine 2014, once again on the brink of war: Adnan is desperate to find his way out of the pre-dawn existence in the checkpoint queue. In the midst of a volatile turn of events, his eyes catch a shining soul through the yellow-lit darkness of the night. Her red nails match the blood that suddenly awakens his heart. As their life story would have it, she is an Israeli soldier. From that day, Adnan comes to realise his destiny is not written in stone and that he has choices to make. At the same time, his lifelong friend Ali is thrown the cruellest of fates and embarks down the long dark road of revenge. In the ensuing months, Adnan follows a number of terrifying paths and eventually chooses life.

Available as an eBook, Kindle etc.

Also available as Paperback here : https://www.amazon.com/Palace-Angels-Mohammed-Massoud-Morsi/dp/8799904039/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

As well as at other online retailers.

 

Here is the Goodreads page for it. Post your review so others know what you think of it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40710783-the-palace-of-angels

 

Check out my Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/mohammedmassoudmorsi/

 

Also check out this post for the Giveaways running on all three novels.

Pre-order and Giveaways

1st April 2018 / 0 Comments

Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival

I’m still trying to get my head around summer in the southern hemisphere. That summer having passed is bizarre to me. My senses, emotions and actions are in spring mode. I’ve spent most of my life on the northern hemisphere and if anything that’s how my emotional body clock ticks. Is it changeable though? As I go through editing my latest novel from Israel-Palestine with my good friend Jim Magnus, I am also working on a few vignettes, short stories and essays. These are signs that tell me I’m in the mode of beginnings, of creation. However the changing light signals the opposite. Is this possible I ask myself? Is it possible that there is a difference? Who am I or what am I to add significance to such a triviality? Or is it?

The beginning of 2018 I will explore this and I will explore further living in the strange. The Egyptian-Arabic expression that describes living outside of Egypt, beyond the place where the sun sets. I continue to work on my autobiography and continue to talk to people about how we perceive who we are. How we look at our identity. I’m excited to venture to Margaret River for the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival as a guest speaker. It’s three days showcasing an array of storytelling talent. With more than 50 writers, journalists, illustrators and presenters readers join writers as stories are brought to life in many forms. I look forward to meeting writers such as Assaf Gavron whose writing offers insight and hope into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I can’t wait to hear the readers and their hopes and dreams and least but most importantly, answer their questions.

Check out the line-up here.

If you’re in Perth, make your way to Margaret River. It’s on the shores of the Indian Ocean, where the Souther Ocean muscles in. The air is cold and crisp I remember, the water clear and untamed. I look forward to seeing it again. It’s been more than a decade since I last visited. I look forward to meeting you.

Salaam

Morsi

 

 

 

31st March 2018 / 0 Comments

First Giveaway Success!

Hello World,

🙂

The very first Giveaway here on Living In The Strange went well.

A big congratulations to David Schaafsma who will receive a signed copy of What Is Past Is Dead.

I’m really happy there were so many entries to this Giveaway. I have shifted Giveaways to my own website instead of as before, running them on Goodreads. The now owned by Amazon company, has gone absolutely haywire, charging a ridiculous amount of money to just run the Giveaways.

I use Goodreads and social media to send out the invitation for the Giveaway, also a reminder halfway through. When you receive the ‘event invitation’, please don’t respond. There is no need to.

Just follow the link, either in the text or event description, type in your email of choice and hit enter!

Once you have entered, you will receive a unique URL (link) that you can share. For every other time someone else enters the giveaway – from that link – you will receive an additional entry and your chance of winning increases!

Any comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Peace, Salaam in Arabic.

M M Morsi

3rd March 2017

Hope

Hope must surely come from the imagination.
A place where a battle between good and evil takes place,
Where mighty swords cross our dark souls

And the angels talk to our better self.

In a place where reality battles dreams.
Eventually this hope shows its true face,
As a figment of an ephemeral destination.
One impossible to reach,

Leaving this hope crushed,

Impossible to put back together.

Carrying its positive connotation,
It fools us into believing we are doing the right thing.
In fact the good is the strength and within
We must find the courage to battle our inner child,
Wishing to scream for yet more hope.

 

Mohammed Massoud Morsi 01/03/2017

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