Coming in October: Iman Mersal, Bushra al-Maqtari & more
2022-10-01
This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: 3 Poems & an Interview, Iman Mersal and Robyn Creswell
2022-09-16
Four Way Review, an online literary journal from the independent literary publisher Four Way Books, has published three poems by Iman Mersal in Robyn Creswell’s translation and a talk between Creswell and poet-translator Sara Elkamel.Continue Reading
#WiTMonth Cover Reveal: Iman Mersal’s ‘The Threshold’
2022-08-04
The collection is coming mid-October and can be pre-ordered on the MacMillan website.Continue Reading
On Writing, Motherhood and Care
2022-05-16
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.Continue Reading
#WiTMonth Podcasts: Poetry and More with Iman Mersal
2021-08-24
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.” Continue Reading
Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood @edbookfest
2021-08-12
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.Continue Reading
Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood
2021-08-12
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.Continue Reading
On Why Women’s Poetry in Arabic is Where It’s At
2021-08-02
“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.”Continue Reading
Female Voices in Arabic Literature
2021-07-08
Join our panel as they discuss issues of translation, feminism, tradition and recognition in contemporary female Arab literature, in an exchange designed to open up fresh perspectives of women’s writing and Arab culture for everyone.Continue Reading
