Iman Mersal

#WiTMonth Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold’

The collection is coming mid-October and can be pre-ordered on the MacMillan website.

On Writing, Motherhood and Care

This conversation is about two feminist texts, “How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts” by Iman Mersal and “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise” by Lola Olufemi, both of which explore care, intimacy and politics.

Interviews, WiTMonth

#WiTMonth Podcasts: Poetry and More with Iman Mersal

Meanwhile, in an August episode of the new podcast MAQSOUDA, co-hosted by Farah Chamma and Zeina Hashem Beck, the host-poets discuss Mersal’s «فكرة البيوت», or “The Idea of Houses.”

Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood @edbookfest

Iman Mersal discusses her astounding novel, contemporary Egyptian womanhood, and how translation takes words ‘to new languages and homes’ with poet and writer Mona Kareem.

Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood

Iman Mersal discusses her astounding work of nonfiction, contemporary Egyptian womanhood, and how translation takes words ‘to new languages and homes’ with poet and writer Mona Kareem.

On Translation, Poetry

On Why Women’s Poetry in Arabic is Where It’s At

“For me, actually, I think we are impacted by male writers who are writing now, and they are writing about broken masculinity, which I don’t like either. So maybe women are free of this, relatively. Maybe they are marginalized, so they have more opportunity to think, to write.”