Interviews

Wen-chin Ouyang on Bringing Together Arabic أدب and Chinese 文

July 7, 2020

“I have been thinking of bringing Arabic adab (أدب) and Chinese wen (文) together in a comparative project and look at the ways in which the very value of the humanities today–that educated individuals are more than the money they make and the goods and services they produce; rather, it is about the problems they help solve and the way in which they interact with the wider world—has always been an integral part of thought and action in human history.”

Interviews, On Translation Abu Nuwas, al-Jahiz, Emily Selove

Summer of Lock-in Lit: Cartooning with Popeye & Curly

July 6, 2020

“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea in my head. Other times I ravage entire books looking for the spark of a joke. I have read more widely on the subject of medieval Baghdad this spring and summer than I have since grad school, and this has been time very well spent.”

Interviews Lindsey Moore, Palestine, PalREAD

Drones and Clones: Mapping Palestinian Sci Fi with Lindsey Moore

June 25, 2020

“I’m very interested in the manipulation of temporality — or rather, as I’ve suggested, time-space configuration — that we see in Palestinian SF across different media.”

Interviews Adel Kamel

Adel Kamel (1916-2005) in Family Photos and Memories

June 24, 2020

“He was a very intellectual person, very forward thinking, sometimes too forward in his ideas. He did not really mash into the traditional Coptic orthodox conservative life.”

Interviews Adel Kamel, Seif Salmaway

Publisher Seif Salmawy: On Rediscovering Adel Kamel

June 24, 2020

“Malleem Al Akbar, with its iconoclastic introduction, is probably one of the most important works of fiction to come out of Egypt in the past century. It had long been out of print, and many people had heard of it, but very few had actually read it.”

Interviews Adel Kamel, Waleed Almusharaf

Adel Kamel’s Characters are ‘Despicable and Lovable with No Contradiction’

June 24, 2020

“He’s funny, he’s philosophical in a way that is always wonderfully down to earth and adds to the humor. His characters are despicable and lovable with no contradiction. Sometimes just despicable.”

Interviews, On Translation Norwegian, Oda M. Winsnes

Arabic Literature, Norwegian Readers: Oda Winsnes on Translating Into a Small Language

June 18, 2020

“There are quite enough experts, prophets, and talking heads analyzing the Middle East, but I think our job as translators is to not get in the way of authors expressing themselves by editing, interpreting, and adapting their work.”

Interviews competition, prizes

5 Questions: On the Hybrid and Collective Writing Competition

June 11, 2020

“By that we mean the ethos of hybridization, one that encourages richness in movement, in a linguistic or cultural sense, one that embraces an openness of mind that allows you to experience the same thing from different angles.”

Interviews, On Translation Olivia Snaije, Stéphanie Dujols

Stéphanie Dujols: ‘The More I Translate the More Nervous I Get’

June 3, 2020

“We compare ourselves to others who are worse off, but for me the minimum wage would be a dream. At Angoulême [comics festival] comics artists talked a lot about how they lived under the poverty line.”

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