Sunday Submissions: ‘What Does it Mean to Decolonise Translation?’
“Tilted Axis Press will pay each contributor a fee of up to £500, depending on the length of the piece.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Translated Stories to Mark the Passing of Said al-Kafrawi, 1942-2020
“When I walked through the door into the dimly lit hospital room, I found him lying on the bed, broken.”
#BulaqBookClub: ‘Season of Migration to the North’
What is it about this novel that resists interpretation and demands re-reading? What makes it iconic? And why have Salih’s other books received so little attention?
New Poems by Saniyah Saleh, Mohab Nasr, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine in ‘Seedings’
“The issue has perhaps the most of Saniya Saleh’s work that has ever appeared, in translation, in one place.”
Bahia Shehab on ‘A History of Arab Graphic Design’
“So the fact that I couldn’t find enough women was, to me, exciting for the researcher, because now I want to find them. The Women of Arab Graphic Design should be coming out next.”
Working on ‘Warda’: ‘Challenging in all the Ways a Translation Project Could Be’
“Like I say, it’s fleeting, but I could write a whole memoir, I think, just about getting that sentence translated.”
Fundraising Campaign: The Edward Said Libraries in Gaza
The new fundraising campaign, which seeks to raise $20,000 US, is not only to fund and support the library’s existing projects, but also to start new ones.
Three Poems by Sargon Boulus Award-Winning Emad Abu Saleh
“They were not sieving, / But dancing to the rhythm.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘ICM Global South Translation Fellowships’
“Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities welcomes applications from translators for a grant of up to $5000 to complete translations of works from the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, etc) into English.”