{"id":5228,"date":"2023-09-01T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:48","slug":"southwest-asia-and-north-african-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2023\/09\/01\/southwest-asia-and-north-african-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Asia and North African literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kotobli.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b26e77da26549274f8f08dbaabf41e2%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638291510642472178%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7D5icvtSt8gKb51x6Bae%2BGMcC8UhNQv0D4IB%2Btd9vik%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Kotobli<\/a> <\/strong>is a book discovery platform and database for authors, books, publishers and literary magazines from the \u00a0Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA)\u00a0region. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It aims to highlight works by writers from this region and to \u201cchallenge\u00a0anti-colonial recommendation algorithms.\u201d <br>See more information on their work in <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.genderit.org%2Findex.php%2Ffeminist-talk%2Fkotobli-homegrown-experiment-resisting-dominant-algorithms&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b26e77da26549274f8f08dbaabf41e2%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638291510642472178%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NEvSyD6g6uJp4PcGvVbt0Jb0f8Qfa59LUrzk5UVuMHs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">this explanatory blog posting<\/a> which highlights their specialist reading lists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kotobli is a book discovery platform and database for authors, books, publishers and literary magazines from the \u00a0Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA)\u00a0region. \u00a0 It aims to highlight works by writers from this region and to \u201cchallenge\u00a0anti-colonial recommendation algorithms.\u201d See more information on their work in this explanatory blog posting which highlights their specialist reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[718,717],"tags":[17,19,407,811],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-modern-languages","tag-africa","tag-asia","tag-literature","tag-maghreb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}