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One-minute Review: Bahaa Abdelmegid’s /Saint Theresa/
Bahaa Abdelmegid first published the slim, 96-page Saint Theresa in 2001. When it finally appeared in English in 2010---apparently it had been on AUC Press's "to translate" list for a … Continue reading One-minute Review: Bahaa Abdelmegid’s /Saint Theresa/
Chip Rossetti Wins PEN Grant to Translate Mohamad Makhzangi
From the PEN website: Chip Rossetti for Animals in Our Days, short stories by Mohamad Makhzangi, an Egyptian psychiatrist, journalist and fiction writer who was studying alternative medicine in Kiev … Continue reading Chip Rossetti Wins PEN Grant to Translate Mohamad Makhzangi