Bulaq Podcast

BULAQ is a podcast about contemporary writing from and about the Mashreq and Maghreb. We talk about books written in Aleppo, Cairo, Marrakech and beyond. BULAQ is hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey and co-produced by Sowt.

Produced by:

Sowt

Co-hosts:

Ursula Lindsey & M Lynx Qualey

Latest Episodes

Unlocking Palestine: Sara Yasin on editing The Key BULAQ | بولاق

The Key is a new online publication dedicated to covering Palestine as “the core issue at the heart of the modern world.” We’re joined by its editor-in-chief, Sara Yasin, former managing editor of the LA Times. The Key is an outgrowth of PalFest, an annual traveling literature festival that gathers Palestinian and international writers in Palestine.You can find The Key at thekeymagazine.comWe talk about Lama Zuhair Khouri’s essay “The Conscripted Container” and Sara reads a poem by Tamara Nasr.We encourage you to become a subscriber and supporter of The Key, which you can do at their website.You can subscribe to BULAQ wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Twitter @bulaqbooks and Instagram @bulaq.books for news and updates. If you’d like to rate or review us, we’d appreciate that. If you’d like to support us as a listener by making a donation you can do so at https://donorbox.org/support-bulaq. BULAQ is co-produced with the podcast platform Sowt. Go to sowt.com to check out their many other excellent shows in Arabic, on music, literature, media and more. For all things related to Arabic literature in translation you should visit ArabLit.org, where you can also subscribe to the Arab Lit Quarterly. If you are interested in advertising on BULAQ or sponsoring episodes, please contact us at bulaq@sowt.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  1. Unlocking Palestine: Sara Yasin on editing The Key
  2. From the Archives: Walking Through Fire with Nawal El Saadawi
  3. From the Archives: Love and its Discontents
  4. From the Archives: Not Yet Defeated
  5. Listening to Voices with Hoda Barakat