From a review in Full Stop Magazine: Rabee Jaber’s The Mehlis Report, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, is a genre-bending historico-fantastical murder-mystery that moves the borders between life and death. The novel […]
Eslam Mosbah’s “إيموز”, trans. Raphael Cohen and published by AUC Press as Status: Emo (2013), has a wild, end-of-days atmosphere. Something is rotten in the State of Egypt, and change must be on the horizon.
Translator Ruth Ahmedzai, who worked on one of the excerpts of Mustafa Khalifa’s The Shell for the “And Other Stories” book group wants publishers to know how strongly she feels this book should be translated.
You’ve seen the VIDA count, which tracks how many books, of those reviewed in mainstream publications, were by women. Recently, over at The Nation, Roxanne Gay gave a shot at tracking how many nonwhite writers’ books were reviewed (including translations).
The cover of the Canadian edition of Shereen el-Feki’s Sex and the Citadel is a stunning piece by Iraqi calligrapher Wissam Shawkat. Arabic script twines in and out, forming the shape of a female torso. The words are all long-forgotten Arabic terms for sex.
Although it became “The Corpse Washer” in English translation, Sinan Antoon’s second novel was originally titled وحدها شجرة الرمان, “The Pomegranate Alone.”
This summer, an English translation of Mahmoud Saeed’s 1970 novel, Ben Barka Lane, came out from Interlink Books, trans. Kay Heikkinen.
In the Chicago Tribune, I review Samah Selim’s new English translation of Jurji Zaydan’s Tree of Pearls. I also have a sidebar discussion with Selim on translating the novel (nearly) a century […]
My review of Hadiya Hussein’s Beyond Love, beautifully translated by Ikram Masmoudi (chapeau Ikram) has been released from the Egypt Independent print edition into the wider world. Next, interviews with Masmoudi and Hussein, isA.
