Sudanese Poet Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim Dies at 85
By Lemya Shammat SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 — Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim (1939-2024), a celebrated poet and cultural icon of Sudan, died today in Cairo. He was 85. Born in El-Obied, North […]
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Asmaa Dwaima: ‘A Sentence About Death’
A Sentence About Death By Asmaa Dwaima Translated by the ArabLit collective I would have been happy to die a martyr, but not in the way I see people dying […]
From Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘Samahani’
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out this week from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast […]
On Translating ‘Samahani’: Stepping Outside the Colonial Gaze
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out today from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast to […]
New Short Fiction from Sudan: Rania Mamoun’s ‘Black & White’
Black & White By Rania Mamoun Translated by Nassir A-Sayeid Al-Nour I stepped into my room. I found a young man, tensed and searching for something. He looked inside drawers, […]
Batool Abu Akleen: Poetry Is What Keeps Me Alive
Nineteen-year-old Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen was recently named Modern Poetry in Translation’s “poet in residence,” which entails not quite a residency, but a stipend to write and translate for […]
Poetry in Translation: A Bouquet of Flowers to ‘Wad el-Makki’
Renowned Sudanese poet Mohammed el-Makki Ibrahim composed this poem many years back. It depicts deep yearning for Al Madinah Al Munawarah, the second holiest city in Islam and home to […]
Heba Al-Agha’s ‘Free Poems in the Autumn’
This poem was composed on September 13, 2024, as the first signs of autumn arrive. Free Poems in the Autumn By Heba Al-Agha Translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso How […]
‘To Keep That Wrongness’: Adania Shibli on Relating to Language in ‘Minor Detail’
By Alex Tan On 12 September 2024, the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli was in New York City to speak about her novel Minor Detail in conversation with Ethiopian-American writer Maaza […]