Fady Jomar

Interviews Fady Jomar, Syrian Writers in Berlin

Fady Jomar: ‘I Hope I Will Survive When This Interest Ends’

September 30, 2020

“A lot of the translators also have tight control of everything. That’s the biggest problem — it’s not even about them changing things in translation, it’s that they depend on relationships and friendships with writers they know fit their narratives, and it has nothing to do with whether they’ve written a good text.”

Interviews Caroline Assad, Fady Jomar, Khaled Barakeh, Layali Alawad, Ramy al-Asheq, Syrian Writers in Berlin, Yamen Hussein, Yasmina Jraissati, Yassin al-Haj Saleh

On the ‘Boom’ of Syrian Literature in Berlin

September 30, 2020

In the last five years, there has been a surge of interest in Syrian writing in German translation. In this series of interviews, writers, poets, publishers, and artists in Berlin talk about their experience with the publishing industry in Germany and beyond.