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The diverse world of Kurdish literature

At the start of the summer we were lucky enough to receive funding to slowly start to buildContinue reading “The diverse world of Kurdish literature”

7th Nov 20213rd Nov 2021

Hoda Barakat’s latest book won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. It brings together the stories ofContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: the Night Mail”

1st Nov 20214th Sep 2021

T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland is a masterpiece that speaks of the misery and trauma of war butContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: the Wasteland”

25th Oct 20214th Sep 2021

Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet of love, is a frequently requested poet in the library. This collection, “Illuminations” cameContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Illuminations”

18th Oct 20214th Sep 2021

Doctor Zhivago is a complex saga first published in 1957 by Boris Pasternak. Set around the Russian RevolutionContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Dr Zhivago”

11th Oct 20214th Sep 2021

Heathcliff? Yes, it’s the stormy, bleak tale of unfulfilled love by Emily Bronte, translated into Farsi. “If allContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Wuthering Heights”

4th Oct 20214th Sep 2021

Από Μακριά (from far away) is a beautiful new children’s book by Aggeliki Tharlasi. It narrates the taleContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week:”

27th Sep 20214th Sep 2021

A Turkish translation of the Whole Brained Child is available at ECHO! Many of our readers across theContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: The Whole-Brained Child”

20th Sep 20214th Sep 2021

The novel that brought magical realism to the fore in literature – Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 years ofContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: 100 Years of Solitude”

13th Sep 20214th Sep 2021

Audrey Lorde was a seminal figure who wrote passionately from her unique revolutionary, black, feminist, lesbian perspective. ThroughContinue reading “ECHO Book of the Week: Sister Outsider”

6th Sep 20214th Sep 2021

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check out the links below for ECHO’s media mentions:

Elvis Zoppolato’s article for Italian journal The Left in July 2021 here
An interview with the organisers of the ECHO library” Verso blog, November 2020
Good deeds: the mobile library reaching refugees’ hearts and minds” The Guardian, March 2020
The radical library tradition for Verso by George Kafka, March 2020
ECHO Mobile Library Offers Education, Community, Hope, and Opportunity” The National Herald, March 2020
the IFLA paper Multicultural libraries in a bordered world, presented at the IFLA annual conference, August 2019