“In its direct, stripped-back lines, the collection demonstrates both the limits and the necessity of language, inviting us to ask, together, how we can move through and beyond suffering.”Continue Reading
“The translation of poetry is poetry stretched to its very limits.”Continue Reading
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced yesterday that Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s Exhausted on the Cross was one of the four-book shortlist for their poetry prize, alongside works by Mandelstam (tr. Peter France), Dante (tr. D. M. Black), and atalka Bilotserkivets (tr. Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky).Continue Reading
Join this interview with translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid about his translations of Rabee Jaber’s novel Confessions and poet Najwan Darwish’s collection Exhausted on the Cross as part of the afikra Book Club series.Continue Reading
“Translators of Palestinian poetry, in addition to untangling the poetics of pain (or in our case, exhaustion), carry the additional burden of making people listen.”Continue Reading
The Center for Fiction is hosting their last Translation Clinic of the year, “What Does it Take to Translate the Intangible?” with Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Alta L. Price.Continue Reading
Yesterday, PEN America announced the longlists for their 2022 literary awards, including the two categories for work in translation.Continue Reading
In this hybrid talk/reading, Kareem James Abu-Zeid will take us on a whirlwind journey through Arab poetry, using his own recent translations as stopping points.Continue Reading
“The source of love opened / And a lily emerged.”Continue Reading
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