On the New Platform, ‘Palestine is Everywhere’
Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to host a series of monthly commissions, "creating an ongoing space to support and amplify the work of artists, writers, and practitioners from Palestine and the wider region." ...
On the Choice to Write in Colloquial Arabic
"Some classical poets feel that the popularity of colloquial writers has nothing to do with the quality of their work, but rather because they have chosen the easier path." ...
Translating Trauma, the Trauma of Translating
Here, Leri Price talks about the referred trauma (and guilt) of translating testimonies from a genocide, how she worked with translators bringing the book into other languages, and the particular challenges of translating this book ...
Kawthar Al-Jahmi’s Journey: From ‘Bint Tripoli’ to Award-winning Novelist
Today, Kawthar al-Jahmi talks about her writing and reading journeys, the role of literary prizes, submitting her novel to the publisher a day before giving birth, and developing a writing practice while working and raising children ...
Words, Music, and Translating ‘Red Like Orange’
This month, Hoopoe Fiction (an imprint of AUC Press) publishes Charles Akl’s debut novel Red Like Orange, which won a 2023 Sawiris Cultural Award. Now, three years later, Sarah Enany’s translation of this novel is available to a new readership ...
Translating for the Egyptian Stage
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Sarah Enany talk about some of the particulars about translating for the stage and, particularly, for song ...
Mohamed Mansi Qandil, on Medicine and Writing
In this conversation with acclaimed Egyptian novelist Mohamed Mansi Qandil, we discuss his latest novel to reach English, The Country Doctor's Tale, the relationship between doctoring and writing, the novels that shaped him, and why he'd like to see The Country Doctor's Tale as a film or TV series ...
On Translating the Omani Natural Landscape
Marilyn Booth reflects on her experience translating Zahran Alqasmi’s work and provides insight on greater questions of translation ...
Translating Oman
The"Translating Oman" event, hosted by Syracuse University Press, featured a discussion about Omani literature and translation ...
On Translating Egyptian Village Life
In this conversation with Neil Hewison, we discuss what brought him to Mohamed Mansi Qandil's The Country Doctor's Tale, the pleasures of the Egyptian village novel, Mansi Qandil's attention to women's pain, and what makes a "modern classic." ...
