Sunday Submissions: Ibn ‘Arabi Translation Prize
2022-08-14
The Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society is calling for entries for their translation prize.Continue Reading
Translation’s Agitated Mirror
2022-03-16
“Perhaps each iteration of the poem is a supplicant, yearning for a connection with Ibn Arabi’s original. Or perhaps each one is a lover, longing to see itself in another. Perhaps they are both.”Continue Reading
Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi
2022-02-16
Join Yasmine Seale, Robin Moger, and Marina Warner for a reading and conversation of “Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi.”Continue Reading
Upcoming Events: Susan Abulhawa, Mona Kareem, Michael Sells’ ‘Translator of Desires’ & More
2021-04-17
A few upcoming online events.Continue Reading
In Love and Word Ensnared
2019-11-19
Mourns a friend and blames time
that struck her down with what struck meContinue Reading
Friday Finds: Versions of ‘Poem Six,’ Ibn Arabi’s ‘Interpreter of Desires’
2019-07-05
“No more standing it / Or bearing now / They are no more. / Are no more here / Yet they stand in the dim hall still of your heart.” Continue Reading
Unreckoned: Experimental Translations of Ibn Arabi
2018-10-25
Moger described the distinctive approach they took to translating Ibn Arabi, attempting to treat each poem as an individual text without embedding it in a scholarly apparatus.Continue Reading
Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger on Co-translating Ibn Arabi
2018-10-11
According to Moger, the two poet-translators “will be presenting their correspondence-in-translations of poems from Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman Al Ashwaq, as well as projects of their own, to discuss the process of translation in terms of communion and distance, frustration and aspiration, constraint and freedom, and of voices lost and made.”Continue Reading
Rumi-mania and the Bumpy Road To Writing a Sufi-themed Novel in Arabic
2017-10-31
“There is a great appetite for Sufi-themed novels in Arabic. Where will it lead?”Continue Reading
