Emergency Index 2011Every year, Emergency Index invites a collection of artists and authors to document performances they made in the previous year. The only print publication of its kind, it offers a cutting edge view of performance in theatre, dance, poetry, music, visual art, political activism, among many other disciplines. Emergency Index 2011 documents 249 performance works made in 27 countries around the world, along with a comprehensive index of key terms used to

as well as short stories

Qassim Haddad – Five Poems

He has edited No Author Better Served: The Correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider (Harvard University Press

in the next seat at the theatre

Abbas Beydhoun Six Poems

A Second Sunrise (1982) and God of Death (1984)

He was to have been a gift

NeWest Press

and A tous qui partent by Fatma Z

but still he said to himself

The Republic of Letters is

Younis al-Akhzami