A Conversation about ‘I’m Here With You,’ a Bilingual Fiction Podcast
The series “أنا معاك / I’m Here With You” is, as its creators write, “an immersive audio drama exploring the personal stories of four people who call a mental health […]
Interviews
In Focus: Poet Olivia Elias’s ‘Your Name, Palestine’
To mark the launch of Olivia Elias’s Your Name, Palestine last month, we share a conversation between the poet and her translators, Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert; an excerpt from Your Name, […]
A Conversation with Derek Walcott Prize-winning Poet Mosab Abu Toha
This conversation originally ran last year, in November 2022, after Mosab Abu Toha won a 2022 Palestine Book Award for Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. […]
‘Rotten Evidence’: A Conversation with Translator Katharine Halls
By Tugrul Mende This month, Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison was published in Katharine Halls’ English translation. The book chronicles Naji’s two years in prison, which […]
Discover LEILA’s List of Arabic Books Recommended for Translation
For the past three years, a small European team has been working on a project called LEILA, founded with the aim of promoting the translation and dissemination of new Arab […]
Authors vs. Editors: A Dialogue on the Challenges And Beauties of Editing Arabic Literary Works
By Essayed Taha In 2014, when the late Mourid Barghouti was chair of the panel of judges for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, he used his awards-ceremony speech to […]
On the Scottish Bilingual Publishing House ‘Sunono’ & the Importance of Chapter Books for Kids
Sunono Publishing — a Scotland-based bilingual book operation — is one of the newer publishers making an impact on the landscape of Arabic children’s literature and translation. This month, Sunono […]
’10/11 Heralds the Turning of a Page’: Sandra Hetzl & Katharine Halls on Their New Literary Agency
By M Lynx Qualey Headed up by Sandra Hetzl, Katharine Halls, and Alice Guthrie, 10/11 is “a literary agency operating in Europe that specializes in bold, exciting, contemporary Arabic literature.” […]
‘I Cannot Ignore the Pain in People’s Faces’: Badriyah al-Badri on Writing About Expatriate Workers in Oman
A Conversation with Katherine Van de Vate In 2021, the Omani poet Badriyah Al-Badri made history as the first woman to win Qatar’s prestigious Katara Prize for Poetry, earning the […]