Guy Gunaratne: ‘And Yes, Galal’s Poetry Inspires Me’
“And yes, Galal’s poetry inspires me. He makes me want to sit at my desk with a stronger spine, be brave with my own writing.”
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Sharjah Signed As Guest of Honor at Another 2020 Book Fair: Guadalajara
The latest agreement, in Guadalajara, was signed July 16.
Who (Doesn’t) Speak: On Book Fairs and False Equivalencies
“We are veterans of the same war,” Ackerman writes of his Syrian translator Abed, a democracy activist, “the same disillusionment, one where high-minded democratic ideals left a wake of destruction.”
‘500 Tomorrows’: On Jailed Egyptian Poet Galal El-Behairy
It ends without an ending, with a familiar stagnation: “distress leaves/ making room for more distress/ and I wait for tomorrow’s date/ to come tomorrow, late.”
5 Reads: The DNA of Palestinian Political Comedy
Fools, cowards, separation walls, hate crimes, and romance: Palestinian Political Comedy.
5 Books: Arabic Literature at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival
In addition to events by acclaimed Anglophone Arab authors such as Leila Aboulela and Layla AlAmmar, there will be at least four Arabic-focused events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, all featuring authors with books recently published in translation.
Forthcoming in Translation: 21 Books for the Second Half of 2019
Inspired by LitHub’s list of “Most Anticipated Books of the Second Half of 2019,” a list of 21 works forthcoming in translation, from Arabic, Tamazight, and French, in the second half of 2019.
Webcomics and the Art of Translating Tamer Hosny Lyrics
Throughout the workshop, she emphasized that the language one writes in matters, because it makes an immediate claim about audience: “It’s not that I was bothered by translation so much as that it’s stuff that’s not meant for you . . . I didn’t want to be giving [Egyptians] secondhand content.”
How To: Translating Comix from Arabic
For a time, she said, she stopped doing the web comic because there was no way to be honest and keep it open.