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 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."
Female 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.
Upcoming Events: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Arabic Publishing during the Cold War & More
A few upcoming online events, through the end of May.
Friday Finds: Celebrating Iman Mersal
But there's also much more of Mersal's work to explore online.
Iman Mersal Wins 2021 SZBA with ‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’
This year's "literature" award went to Iman Mersal for her 2019 work of creative nonfiction Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat).
Friday Finds: Dreams of Iman Mersal and Sargon Boulus
Two new dream poems have recently appeared in translation, online.