Hazem Jamjoum on Writing for Communities of Struggle
This conversation took place in early July. In it, Hazem Jamjoum discusses his plans and visions for the newly launched publishing house, Safarjal.
Interviews
On Translating ‘The Cinderellas of Muscat’
This summer, Banipal Books published Huda Hamed’s The Cinderellas of Muscat, translated by Chip Rossetti. Here, Tugrul, Huda, and Chip talk through the Cinderella figure, the translation process, and the relationship between the author and translator. Huda Hamed’s answers were translated by Chip Rossetti.
Translation and the Diasporic Subjectivity
maia tabet and yasmeen hanoosh are both Arabic-English literary translators who have spent decades living and translating from multiple diasporic locales. In this conversation, they retrace the trajectories of their experience as translators, uprooted Arab women, and bilingual diasporic subjects to identify intersections and divergences along their paths.
On Palestinian Literature in Lithuania
Here, we discuss the landscape of Palestinian literature in Lithuania with Giedrė Steikūnaitė, Ina Kiseliova-El Marassy, and Ingrida Tatolytė.
New on Bulaq: Mohamed Choukri’s Brutal Honesty
In the latest episode of BULAQ, co-hosts M Lynx Qualey and Ursula Lindsey talk with translator-scholar Jonas Elbousty about the great Mohamed Choukri.
Reading Syrian Poetry: A Conversation with Daniel Behar
In his new book “Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity,” Daniel Behar looks at a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria. The text examines unknown poetic texts from Syria from the 1970s onward. In this conversation, Behar looks back on the work of his new book and how Monzer al-Masri gradually became its protagonist.
With Ibtisam Azem at the Torino Book Fair
“When I write fiction I’m more playful, I go back to being a child, where there are no borders or limits. I try not to think of my readers. Despite the difficult subjects, there is joy.”
‘Yours, Anonymous’: Letters from Cairo
Fatima El-Kalay and Mai Serhan talk about Mai’s new collection, CAIRO: the undelivered letters.
On Liberation as Writing Technique
Today, we share Fatma Qandil and Adam Talib’s wide-ranging discussion with Tugrul Mende, which touches on: the method behind Qandil’s writing, standing on the shoulders of other women writers, why this book was a challenge to translate, and the joy of being read by a younger generation.