The collection is coming mid-October and can be pre-ordered on the MacMillan website.
Read moreOn 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.
Read more#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.”
Read moreIman 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.
Read moreIman 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.
Read moreOn 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.”
Read moreFemale Voices in Arabic Literature
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.
Read moreUpcoming Events: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Arabic Publishing during the Cold War & More
A few upcoming online events, through the end of May.
Read moreFriday Finds: Celebrating Iman Mersal
But there’s also much more of Mersal’s work to explore online.
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